Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jawbone"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Jaw-bone
of an ass afforded Samson a weapon for the great slaughter of
the Philistines (Judg. 15.15), in which he slew a thousand men.
In verse 19 the Authorized Version reads, "God clave a hollow
place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout." This
is a mis-translation of the words. The rendering should be as in
the Revised Version, "God clave the hollow place that is in
Lehi," etc., Lehi (q.v.) being the name of the hill where this
conflict was waged, possibly so called because it was in shape
like a jaw-bone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jawbone \Jaw"bone`\, n.
The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
jawbone
n : the lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the
mouth [syn: {lower jaw}, {mandible}, {mandibula}, {submaxilla},
{lower jawbone}, {jowl}]
v : talk idly or casually, in a friendly way [syn: {shmooze}, {shmoose},
{schmooze}, {schmoose}]
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