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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bank, bazoo, beam, border, broadside, chaps, cheek, chop, chops, coast, embouchure, flank, gab, gob, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, laterality, lips, mandibles, many-sidedness, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, multilaterality, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, planking, premaxilla, profile, quarter, shore, side, siding, temple, trap, unilaterality, yap
Dictionary Results for jowl:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
jowl
    n 1: the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
         [syn: lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular
         bone, submaxilla, lower jawbone, jawbone, jowl]
    2: a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and
       jaw (characteristic of aging)
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jowl \Jowl\, v. t.
   To throw, dash, or knock. [Obs.]
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         How the knave jowls it to the ground.    --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jowl \Jowl\ (joul or j[=o]l), n. [For older chole, chaul, AS.
   ceaft jaw. Cf. Chaps.]
   The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle,
   and geoule.]
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   Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by
      side; in close proximity. "I will go with thee cheek by
      jole." --Shak. " Sits cheek by jowl." --Dryden.
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