Definition of cheek

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Cheek (n.) The cheek bone.

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Zygoma :: Zygoma (n.) The jugal, malar, or cheek bone..
Blanch :: Blanch (v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun..
Suffusion :: Suffuse (v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes..
Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..
Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..
Sidepiece :: Sidepiece (n.) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window..
Chuffy :: Chuffy (a.) Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
Dimple :: Dimple (n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin..
Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..
Pouched :: Pouched (a.) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher..
Viz-cacha :: Viz-cacha (n.) A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
Rouge :: Rouge (v. i.) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
Flush :: Flush (n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset..
Aglow :: Aglow (adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow..
Gena :: Gena () The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
Snaffle :: Snaffle (n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Ape :: Ape (n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes..
Meloplasty :: Meloplasty (n.) The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.
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