Jaw: alternatives and connections

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the p…

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Outer.

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To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

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To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.

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To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

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To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

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To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

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To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

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To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scr…

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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

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To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicat…

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To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

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To chide; to reprove.

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To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

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The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

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The cheek; the jaw.

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The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

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The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.

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Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.

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To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

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To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

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To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch,…

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A school, company, or shoal.

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One who, or that which, spans.

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A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

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An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

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To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

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One who chaffs.

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To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

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To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

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Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

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See Clover.

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Familiar talk or conversation.

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To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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To beat severely.

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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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To masticate; to chew; to eat.

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To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

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To find fault; to be peevish.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…

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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

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To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to sco…

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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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