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The side of the face below the eye.

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  1. n. The side of the face below the eye.
  2. n. The cheek bone.
  3. n. Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
  4. n. The branches of a bridle bit.
  5. n. A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
  6. n. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
  7. v. t. To be impudent or saucy to.
  8. n. either side of the face below the eyes
  9. n. an impudent statement
  10. n. either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump
  11. n. impudent aggressiveness
  12. v. speak impudently to