Jawbone

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jawbone \Jaw"bone`\, n.
     The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jawbone \jaw"bone`\ (j[add]"b[=o]n`), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.


     {jawboned} (j[add]"b[=o]nd`); p. pr. & vb. n. {jawboning}.]
     To attempt to influence solely by talking, as contrasted with
     threatening or inducing by other means, e.g. legislation;
     esp. to make public appeals in order to influence the
     behavior of businessmen or labor leaders; -- used especially
     of the President or other high government officials; as, to
     jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases.
     [1913 Webster] -- {jaw"bon*ing}, n.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jawbone
       n : the lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the
           mouth [syn: {lower jaw}, {mandible}, {mandibula}, {mandibular
           bone}, {submaxilla}, {lower jawbone}, {jowl}]
       v : talk idly or casually and in a friendly way [syn: {shmooze},
            {shmoose}, {schmooze}, {schmoose}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jaw-bone
     of an ass afforded Samson a weapon for the great slaughter of
     the Philistines (Judg. 15.15), in which he slew a thousand men.
     In verse 19 the Authorized Version reads, "God clave a hollow
     place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout." This
     is a mis-translation of the words. The rendering should be as in
     the Revised Version, "God clave the hollow place that is in
     Lehi," etc., Lehi (q.v.) being the name of the hill where this
     conflict was waged, possibly so called because it was in shape
     like a jaw-bone.