a. (sb.) [ad. L. jugāl-is, f. jugum yoke: cf. F. jugal (16th c. in Littré).]
† 1. Of or relating to a yoke, esp. the matrimonial yoke or bond; conjugal. Obs.
1617. Middleton & Rowley, Fair Quarrel, II. ii. VVhen heauen had witnes to the Iugall knot.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., VIII. 385.
| O those soft fifteene yeeres, so sweetly past, | |
| Which thou Calenus with Sulpitia hast | |
| In iugall consocietie. |
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Jugal, that is yoaked, or pertaining to … Matrimony or Wedlock.
2. Anat. Of or pertaining to the zygoma or bony arch of the cheek; malar, zygomatic.
1598. Florio, Giugale osso, the iugall bone, which is a portion of the bones of the head and of the vpper iawe.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., III. xi. 153. Arises outwardly from the Jugal process, and descending obliquely through the Cheeks, it is terminated in the space between the two Lips.
1766. Parsons, in Phil. Trans., LVI. 207. A strong membrane … inserted all along the jugal bone on each side.
1864. Huxley, in Reader, 5 March. The jugal arch is much developed in proportion to the cranium.
B. sb. Anat. The jugal or malar bone.
1854. Owen, Skel. & Teeth, in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat., I. 219. The jugal and squamosal are also confluent.
1883. Martin & Moale, Vertebr. Dissect., 106. The jugal forms part of the middle of the suborbital bony bar.
