Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce[`a]ce,
   ce[`o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin
   to E. chew, jaw.]
   1. The side of the face below the eye.
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   2. The cheek bone. [Obs.] --Caucer.
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   3. pl. (Mech.) 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.
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   4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit. --Knight.
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   5. (Founding) 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.
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   6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]
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   Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef.

   Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp.,
      the malar bone.

   Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.

   Cheek pouch (Zool.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of
      certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.

   Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle
      block.

   Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast,
      upon which the trestletrees rest.

   Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.

   Butment cheek. See under Butment.
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	Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), v. t.
   To be impudent or saucy to. [Slang.]
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	cheek
    n 1: either side of the face below the eyes
    2: an impudent statement [syn: impudence, cheek,
       impertinence]
    3: either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that
       form the human rump [syn: buttock, cheek]
    4: impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness";
       "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn:
       boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek]
    v 1: speak impudently to

	

	72 Moby Thesaurus words for "cheek":
   arse, ass, backside, bank, beam, behind, border, bottom, brashness,
   brass, brazen boldness, breech, broadside, bum, butt, can, cheeks,
   chop, chutzpah, coast, confidence, crust, derriere, duff, face,
   fanny, flank, gall, hand, handedness, haunch, heroics, hip, hubris,
   improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness,
   insolence, jowl, keister, laterality, many-sidedness,
   multilaterality, nerve, overboldness, overcarelessness,
   overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, planking, prat,
   presumption, profile, quarter, rashness, rusty-dusty, shore, side,
   siding, stern, tail, temerariousness, temerity, temple, tuchis,
   tush, tushy, unchariness, unilaterality, unwariness

	

	Cheek
   Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult
   (Job 16:10; Lam. 3:30; Micah 5:1). The admonition (Luke 6:29),
   "Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the
   other," means simply, "Resist not evil" (Matt. 5:39; 1 Pet.
   2:19-23). Ps. 3:7 = that God had deprived his enemies of the
   power of doing him injury.