Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits, as indicated by depression of the jaw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits.
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A surgeon of long experience said that a third of the babies died in their first month, and that few of the imported women bore children; and another veteran resident said that commonly more than a quarter of the babies died within the first nine days, of "jaw-fall," and nearly another fourth before they passed their second year. [
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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