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Cheeks of a mast
Cheek Cheek (ch[=e]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce[`a]ce, ce[`o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.] 1. The side of the face below the eye. 2. The cheek bone. [Obs.] --Caucer. 3. pl. (Mech.) 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. 4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit. --Knight. 5. (Founding) 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. 6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang] Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone. Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. Cheek pouch (Zo["o]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food. Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block. Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest. Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth. Butment cheek. See under Butment.

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- deck, to which the foot of the mast is fixed; it has two sides or ch****s and a bolt forming the pivot around which the mast is raised and lowered"; "substantial...
- Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage...
- mast to spread the topmast shrouds. These crosstrees rest on two trestle trees running fore and aft, which themselves are placed on top of the ch****s...
- laurifolia (Hook.f. ex Mast.) Burret Microcos ledermannii Burret Microcos loerzingii Burret Microcos magnifica Ch**** Microcos malacocarpa (Mast.) Burret Microcos...
- K.Schum. Cola cauliflora Mast. Cola cecidiifolia Ch**** Cola chlamydantha K.Schum. Cola chlorantha F.White Cola clavata Mast. Cola coccinea Engl. & K.Krause...
- foot of the mast is fixed. It has two sides or ch****s and a bolt forming the pivot around which the mast is raised and lowered. tack 1.  A leg of the route...
- of the sheet music for the po****r number "Ev'rybody Shimmies Now". Eventually, West began writing her own risqué plays using the pen name Jane Mast....
- angioedema seen in CSU is thought to be linked to the degranulation of skin mast cells. Mast cells release proteases, histamine, cytokines, and arachidonic...
- driver-mast The fifth mast of a six-masted barquentine or gaff schooner. It is preceded by the jigger mast and followed by the spanker mast. The sixth mast of...
- ****embled as a "made mast" from a number of pieces of timber that reinforced a central core, rather than from a single tree. A single-tree mast was the preferred...