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One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

For what reason; from what cause. How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale Shak.

ty of comfort; disconsolate. Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, And from her cheek the rose of beauty fied. Falconer. -- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sol"a*bly, adv.

a fireplace. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns. Ingle nock, the chimney corner. -- Ingle side, Ingle cheek, the fireside.

parts are glaucous gray, the head and tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also kept as a cage bird.

a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.

The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.] Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with three cheek by jole." Shak. " Sits cheek by jowl." Dryden.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.

A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.

The cheek. [Obs.] Holinshed.

ine or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book. He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. Dickens.

The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

ace as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. Though mantled in her cheek the blood. Sir W. Scott.

s graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn. Shak. Map lichen (Bot.), a lichen (Lecidea geographica.) growing on stones in curious maplike figures. Dr. Prior.

Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.

The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.

t of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth.

on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.