noun
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the side of the face including the temples; the cheek.
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the temples of an elephant.
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an inflamed, painful, pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused by localized infection; a boil; a furuncle.
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a very thin film of liquid forming a ball around air or gas; a bubble.
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the baleful influence supposedly of a star or planet.
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an instance of being liable to injury, damage, loss, pain, etc.
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the tenth of the twenty seven portions of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic.
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a mark, spot; a mole (as on the skin).
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any of large, heavy, thick-skinned, plant-eating, perissodactylous mammals of Rhinocerotidae family, of tropical Asia, with an upright horn on the snout; a rhinoceros.
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a saclike structure in human beings, serving for temporary storage of urine; the urinary bladder.