*tooth*

See under Colt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dogteeth 1. See Canine tooth, under Canine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, in acute crystals, resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite. --
Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [ Written also dog's-tooth violet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Eyeteeth /plu> (Anat.) A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having fine teeth set close together; as, a fine-tooth comb. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pl. Fore teeth (Anat.) One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Gagteeth A projecting tooth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having gagteeth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having conspicuous interstices between the teeth; as, his gap-toothed grin. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OE. gat goat + tooth. See Goat the animal. ] Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pl. Lions' teeth (Bot.) See Leontodon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A tooth that has grown in a faulty position. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A toothpick. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Teeth [ OE. toth, tooth, AS. tōð; akin to OFries. tōth, OS. & D. tand, OHG. zang, zan, G. zahn, Icel. tönn, Sw. & Dan. tand, Goth. tumpus, Lith. dantis, W. dant, L. dens, dentis, Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, Skr. danta; probably originally the p. pr. of the verb to eat. √239. Cf. Eat, Dandelion, Dent the tooth of a wheel, Dental, Dentist, Indent, Tine of a fork, Tusk. ] 1. (Anat.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory, and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw, and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal.
In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine, but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth, two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth. The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all. [ 1913 Webster ]

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Taste; palate. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (a) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. (b) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk. [ 1913 Webster ]

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5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort. --
In the teeth, directly; in direct opposition; in front. “Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth.” Pope. --
To cast in the teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. --
Tooth and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. “I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright.” Charles Reade. --
Tooth coralline (Zool.), any sertularian hydroid. --
Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. --
Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. --
Tooth net, a large fishing net anchored. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. --
Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2. --
Tooth powder, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. --
Tooth rash. (Med.) See Red-gum, 1. --
To show the teeth, to threaten. “When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.” Young. --
To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. “That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth .” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Toothed p. pr. & vb. n. Toothing. ] 1. To furnish with teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste. --
Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any notodontian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush for cleaning the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. “Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl.” Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot. & Zool.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toothed whale (Zool.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. --
Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Toothsome. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no teeth. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little tooth, or like projection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf. [ Written also toothletted. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pointed instrument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A toothpick. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Grateful to the taste; palatable. -- Tooth"some*ly, adv. -- Tooth"some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathraea, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Toothed; with teeth. [ R ] Croxall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + tooth. ] To take out the teeth of. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]