<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw.</li><li>the side wall of the mouth between the upper and lower jaws.</li><li>something resembling the side of the human face in form or position, as either of two parts forming corresponding sides of various objects: the cheeks of a vise.</li><li>impudence or effrontery: "He's got a lot of cheek to say that to me!"</li><li>Synonyms: gall, brass, audacity, nerve.</li><li>Slang: either of the buttocks.</li><li>Architecture: one side of an opening, as a reveal.</li><li>either of two similar faces of a projection, as a buttress or dormer.</li><li>Carpentry: a piece of wood removed from the end of a timber in making a tenon.</li><li>a piece of wood on either side of a mortise.</li><li>one side of a hammer head.</li><li>Horology: one of two pieces placed on both sides of the suspension spring of a pendulum to control the amplitude of oscillation or to give the arc of the pendulum a cycloidal form.</li><li>one of the two main vertical supports forming the frame of a hand printing press.</li><li>Machinery: either of the sides of a pulley or block.</li><li>Nautical: either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a lower mast, used to support trestletrees which in turn support a top and often the heel of a topmast; one of the hounds of a lower mast.</li><li>Compare hound 2 (def 1).</li><li>Metallurgy: any part of a flask between the cope and the drag.</li></ul>