Word Meanings - CHEEK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The side of the face below the eye.

Additional info about word: CHEEK

Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The side of the face below the eye. 2. The cheek bone. Caucer. 3. pl.

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• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• CORRESPONDENT
  One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. (more info) 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macualay. 2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE