sb. and a. [f. L. bucca cheek, mouth + -AL: as if ad. L. *buccālis. With sense 1, cf. Sp. bocal mouthpiece of a trumpet.]
† A. sb. A mouthpiece. Obs.
1605. Chapman & Marston, Eastward Hoe, A ij b. You all know the deuise of the Horne, where the young fellow slippes in at the Butte end, and comes sques’d out at the Buckall.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the cheek.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 403. The buccal membrane.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 189. The buccal ganglia.
