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The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes…

Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.

the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

rches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.

state of being concealed. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. Shak. Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile. Shak.

s with the hand; to stroke. Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy. Shak.

nything of a spiral or winding form. Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton.

color of the damask rose. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. Shak. Damask color, a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose. -- Damask plum, a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson. -- Damask rose (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa…

Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

To mark with, or as with, color; to color. Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. Fairfax.

part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.

ht natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin. Milton. The dimple of her chin. Prior.