dewlap

• “The moose has a very thick, strong neck from which hangs a long, round flap of skin and hair called a dewlap, or bell.”

  The Huffington Post: Rich Wolf: Rocky Mountain Mighty Moose (Photos)

• “This species differs in some particulars from the domesticated Gayal, and also from the Asseel, or true Gayal; first, in size, being a larger animal than the domestic one; secondly, in the largeness of the dewlap, which is deeper and more undulated than in either the wild or tame species; and, thirdly, in the size and form of the horns. ”

  Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.

• “dewlap," three or four inches of the loose skin under the throat skinned down and left hanging.”

  The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

• “Bull moose have been observed contorting their bodies in order to urinate on their dewlap, thereby soaking it in their pheromone-rich urine.”

  The Huffington Post: Rich Wolf: Rocky Mountain Mighty Moose (Photos)

• “I remember a Dick Tracy newspaper cartoon plot involving an obese criminal who had snaps put in his flesh so he could hide a handgun in his dewlap.”

  The Naked Truth About Concealed Carry

• “We saw his grizzled mustache, the bald spot on his head, the puff-sacks under his eyes, the sagging cheeks, the heavy dewlap, the general tiredness and staleness and fatness, all the collapse and ruin of a man who had once been strong but who had lived too easily and too well.”

  The Night-Born

• “These three eyed reptiles also have a large loose flap of skin under their chin called a dewlap.”

  The Three Eyed Iguanas of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

• “It has many blood vessels running through its thin skin and therefore, on a hot day, the iguana can get in the shade and stick out its dewlap to let the body heat escape; on a cold day, it can bathe in the sun and stick out its dewlap to absorb as much of the sun rays as possible.”

  The Three Eyed Iguanas of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

• “Is not the dewlap of the ox inscrutable? the mane of the lion? the tusks of the boar? the musk-sack of the deer?”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.”

  Dangerous Encounter

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