temple (2)

[O. French temples =the temples (Fr. tempe ), from Lat. tempora =the temples, pl. of temp us a temple.] The flat portion of either side of the head above the cheekbone, or between the forehead and ear. They are distinguished as right and left temples. (Generally used in the plural.) "I'll chafe her temples, yet there's nothing stirs." Beaum. & Flet.: Maid's Tragedy, v. těm'-ple (3), 8. [TEMPLET.] 1. Weaving : An instrument for keeping cloth its proper breadth while the reed beats up against it in the proce of weaving. 2. One of the bars on the outer ends of the spectacle bows by which the spectacles are made to clasp the head of the wearer. *těm-ple, v . t . [TEMPLE (1), subst .] To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to inclose in a temple. "The heathen (in many places) templed and adorn'd this drunken god."-Feltham: Resolves, pt. i., res. 84. Devoid of a temple. *tem-ple-le , adj. [Eng. temple (1), s.; -le .]