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Chin former
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jawbone
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jawbone can refer to the following: Mandible , the lower jaw bone Maxilla , the upper jaw bone of humans Jawbone (instrument) , a musical instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse, or zebra Jawbone (musician) , blues musician Bob Zabor Jawbone ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Across the River Esk is a whale's jawbone arch, a reminder of the town's maritime history. ▪ He passed scattered jawbones, pale twists of wood. ▪ He took hold of the face and jawbone and tried to restore a more normal appearance. ...
Usage examples of jawbone.
His wide mouth thrust forward more prominently than did his wide and flattened nose and he had no chin to speak of, only a jawbone that curved smoothly down and back.
One was hinged at the outermost extremity of the jawbone and was used in eating.
It was another consideration that stopped him: the queer taste in his mouth and the itch along the side of his jawbone and down the line of his backbone.
For it would bear out that this skull and jawbone which I was taking away had actually been there.
The bright crimson cord holding jawbone to skull, as I found when the tough wrapping paper finally fell away, revealing the, skull, its jet-black letters uppermost, had not even slipped during all of its travels.
As a further inducement, Thap suggested that the jawbone of mature swampfish, which turned an awesome pink color was perfect for making jewelry.
She followed the jawbone with her finger, seeking out that tiny niche halfway along the line of it.
While at work, they unexpectedly came upon a human jawbone buried fourteen feet below the surface of the soil.
He did not talk much and he did not ask questions, not even about the jawbone, which the gunslinger turned over and over in his hands during his evening smoke.
Jake had been huddled by the ruins of the tiny fire, the jawbone across his knees, gnawing disconsolately on the bones of the rabbit.
He awoke with a gasp, instinctively reaching for the jawbone that was no longer there, expecting to feel the grass of that ancient grove.
Blindly, the gunslinger sought the jawbone, but it was gone, lost somewhere, used up.
But as to the meaning of these ceremonies, and as to what is done with the jawbone, we have no exact information.
Hagen, the whole skull is dug up and separated from the corpse after the lapse of about a year, but only the lower jawbone is carefully kept by the nearest kinsman as a memorial of the deceased.
Similarly in Uganda the jawbone is the only part of the body of a deceased king which, along with his navel-string, is carefully preserved in his temple-tomb and consulted oracularly.