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noun

Dewlap n.

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age. (Burlesque) "On her withered dewlap pour the ale."

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Etymology of 'Dewlap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... apprehension by consciousness takes place by means of some distinction 'This is such and such.' Nothing can be apprehended apart from some special feature of make or structure, as e.g. the triangularly shaped dewlap in the case of cows. The true distinction between non-determinate and determinate perception is that the former is the apprehension of the first individual among a number of things belonging to the same class, while the latter is the apprehension ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

Words linked to "Dewlap" : neck, cutis