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n orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women. A great, stout servant girl, with cheeks as red as her topknot. Sir W. Scott.

The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover.

A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

n on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

or subject to, man; -- also used figuratively. [Obs.] Hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks With thy black mantle. Shak.

ating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks.

Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red. [Poetic & R.] In her cheeks the vermeil red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed. Spenser.

Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.

erythrus, or Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.

crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. Like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak. Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. Pope.

yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.

The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] So work aye the wangs in his head. Chaucer.

A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. [Obs. & R.] His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.

state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

ving water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. "Wet cheeks." Shak.

Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks. The whiskered vermin race. Grainger.

Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear. Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!" Byron.

Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." Shak.

. The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. Addison.