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ˈunder-jaw [under-1 5 b.] The lower jaw or mandible.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 22 Mahomet the second having taken Constantinople,..beat off the under jaw of one of those heads. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy v. xxxviii, Touching his under-jaw with the thumb. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. v. 91 The under jaw in a Chinese face falls greatly more backward than with us. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xii. §2. 238 The retired under jaw of a swine. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 329 [The female trout] has a less-projecting under-jaw. |