Javanese

(jav-a-nés’ or -néz’),a.andn. [ chew. The form may have been affected by + -n- + -ese. The name Java in the native a ociation with jowl, ME. jolle, chaul, ete., and speech is Jawa, in early forms Jawa, Jaba, ete. ] perhaps with F. jowe, cheek.] 1. One of the I, a. Of or pertaining to the island of Java. bones which form the skeleton or framework The house of a Javanese chief has eight roofs, while the of the mouth; a maxilla or mandible; these ma of the people are restricted to four. bones collectively. The jaws in nearly all vertebrates Amer. Naturalist, XXIII. 32. are two in number, the upper and the lower. The upper jaw II, ». 1. sing. or pl. A native or natives of on each side consists chiefly of the superior maxillary or Java.—2, The language of Java, of the Mal ays up ram axilla, and of an intermaxillary bone or premaxilla, both of which commonly bear teeth in mammals, rep an family. tiles, batrachians, and some fo il birds. The lower jaw Java sparrow. See sparrow. in mammals is a single bone, the inframaxillary, infra max javel}; (jav’el), n. [Early mod. E. javel, jevel ill a, or mandible, or one pair of bones united at the mid- (dial. jabel); E. gavel, a bundle, sheaf: see gavel2.] A and whan the i eten, the i meven the over.Jowe, and noughte the nether Jowe; and the i have no Tonge. sheaf: same as gavel2. Mandeville, Travels, p. 288. Then must the foresaid javils or stalkes bee hung out a 2. The bones and a ociated structures of the second time to be dried in the sun. mouth, as the teeth and soft parts, taken to- Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 1. gether as instruments of prehension and masjavel+ (jav’el), v. t [Also written jarvel, jar tic at i on; mouth-parts in general: commonly ble; cf. Se. javel, jevel, joggle, spill a small in the plural. In most invertebrates, as insects and quantity of liquid, distinguished from jairble, crustaceans, the jaws are much complicated, and consist jirble, spill a large quantity of liquid, jabble, a e entially of modified limbs, maxillipeds, gnathopods, or slight motion of water; origin obscure. Cf. jaw-feet; and the opposite parts work upon each other jaw2.] To bemire. sidewise, not up and down. Often used figuratively. See cut under mouth-part.