单词 | under-jaw |
释义 | under-jawn. The lower jaw or mandible. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun] > lower lower or under (nether) jaw1509 under-chap1584 under-jaw1687 chap1830 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 22 Mahomet the second having taken Constantinople,..beat off the under jaw of one of those heads. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxxviii. 133 Touching his under jaw with the thumb. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 91 The under jaw in a Chinese face falls greatly more backward than with us. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xii. 238 The retired under jaw of a swine. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 329 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV [The female trout] has a less-projecting under-jaw. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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