Cheek

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The cheek bone.

II. Cheek ·noun The branches of a bridle bit.

III. Cheek ·vt To be impudent or saucy to.

IV. Cheek ·noun The side of the face below the eye.

V. Cheek ·noun Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.

VI. Cheek ·noun A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

VII. Cheek ·noun 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 (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, ·etc.

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