jaw
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jaw/ʤɔː/
▶noun
- 1 each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth.
■ (jaws) the grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate.
- 2 (jaws) the gripping parts of a wrench, vice, etc.
- 3 (jaws) the grasping or destructive power of something: the jaws of death.
- 4 informal tedious talk.
– derivatives
-jawed adjective,
jawless adjective.
-jawed adjective,
jawless adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. joe ‘cheek, jaw’, of unknown origin.
'jaw' also found in these Oxford entries:
beak
- bulldog
- cackle
- cement
- chap
- chap-fallen
- cheek
- chin
- coronoid process
- curb
- cut
- cut-throat
- dentary
- dicynodont
- digastric muscle
- egg tooth
- eye tooth
- glanders
- gnathic
- gum
- halfbeak
- impacted
- jawbone
- jaw-dropping
- jaw-jaw
- jawline
- jowl
- lantern jaw
- malar
- mandible
- masseter
- maxilla
- maxillofacial
- monkey wrench
- occlude
- open-jaw
- overshot
- phossy jaw
- pi-jaw
- pike
- platysma
- pollack
- prognathous
- quadrate
- right whale
- sagittal crest
- shiver
- submandibular
- symphysis
