The text discusses the physical and functional aspects of the cheeks, emphasizing how they turn red with shame and have various roles in speaking and blowing. It highlights how cheeks expand and create space for mouth movements, with particular reference to trumpeters. It also touches on terms associated with speech, such as "flapper jaws" for those who talk excessively or "loose-mouthed" for those less articulate.
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The place of the blushing or the red or shame. So one can see that even those who by nature do not blush on the cheeks, become red in shame. Indeed, as the proverb says, due to the great size of the shame, sometimes one becomes red behind the ears. The lower parts of the cheeks are slightly looser so that they can expand during blowing; it also serves to give grace and space to the mouth and lips in speaking; because when the mouth needs to open wide, such a lack of tension would create tension if the lower cheeks were not given the said space and loose security. And though the tongue appears to do most in speaking, yet when speaking quite a quick movement happens in the lower jaws. From this, it is without doubt that those who do a lot of snapping, and control the mouthpiece well; are commonly called "flapper jaws." Just like the word "chatter," from the frequent and endless moving of the jaws, does not clearly reveal its origin. Those who by the lack of much snapping, have a defect of nature, specifically that they are poor speakers; are usually called "loose-mouthed." The expansion of the lower cheeks, which are actually the jaws, suits trumpeters and horn-blowers particularly: Just as the muscles that must do the most service in the act of blowing, thus trumpeters are called; as the muscles must be considered in their examination. It is judged that narrow cheeks that slightly resemble a monkey-house exhibit: The bad-