toot 
Inlf, toutf), prob. < MD. tui/lra, I), tiiitfn, also 
toeten = MI.il. tntiii, sound a horn, = OIK;. 
diimtii, M I K i. dirzrn, make a loud noise, = Icel. 
Ihjntu, whistle as I lie wind, sough, resound, = 
AS. l/iiiiiini, howl, make u noise, = Sw. tjiiln. 
howl, = Dan. tmli', howl, lilow a horn; cf. I). 
liii'l-linri-ii, a bogle-horn, MIKi. tin;, in., noise, 
Icel. Ihi/tr, noise, whistling wind, (loth, tlint- 
hinini, horn, trumpot; perhaps orig. imitative, 
as the later forms are regarded.) I. in/r<inx. 
1. To blow a horn, a whistle, or other wind- 
instrument ; especially, to produce harsh or 
discordant sounds with u horn, cornet, trumpet, 
whistle, or the like. 
To Title ia n home. roriiiK-inrr,- 
Lerin*. .Manlp. Vocah. (E. K. T. 8.), p. 196. 
Tlint fuiilc miisirkc which n borne maketh, being tooted 
in. Chalaner, tr. of Moriro Km-oiniiim, H b. (Hares.) 
2. To give out sound, as a wind-instrument 
when blown: usually a word of disparagement. 
o liuly, I heard a wee horn toot, 
Aim it blew wonder clear. 
Lord Baruaby (Child's Ballads. II. 300). 
You are welcome to my thought* ; and these are, to part 
with the little tootinif Instrument in your jacket to the 
first fool you meet with. 
J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xii. 
3. To make sounds like those of a horn or a 
steam-whistle; trumpet. 
We made a very happy escape from the elephants. They 
soon got our scent, raised their trunks, tooted as no loco- 
motive could '""', their ears sticking out straight, and olf 
they went through the trees and tall grass. 
The Century, XXXIX. 613. 
4. Specifically, to call: said of some grouse. 
The [pinnated] Grouse in the spring commences about 
April to toot, and can be heard nearly a mile. 
Sporttman't Gazetteer, p. 124. 
5. To whine; cry. Hallitoell. [Prov. Eng.] 
II. trann. 1. To sound on a horn, trumpet, 
pipe, or the like. 
Jockie, say. What might he be 
'I h:it sits on yonder hill, 
And tootfth out his notes of glee? 
W. Browne, Shepherd's Pipe, II. 
2. To blow, as an instrument of sound. 
The elephant . . . turned and went down the hill, . . . 
toftting his trumpet as though in great fright. 
The Century, XXXIX. 813. 
toot 2 (tSt), . |X tnot'*, '.] 1. A sound made 
by blowing on a wind-instrument; a note as of 
a horn; a blast. 
But I hae nae broo' of charges, since that awf u' morning 
that a i.nii of a horn, at the Cross of Edinburgh, blew half 
the faithfu ministers of Scotland out of their pulpits. 
Scntt, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxxix. 
Go to the farthest end of the room and blow the pipe in 
gentle toots. Mayer, Sound, p. 78. 
2. A blow-out ; a spree : as. to go on a tovt. 
[Slang, U. 8.] 
toot 3 (t6t), H, [Origin uncertain; cf. tout 1 , .] 
1. A lazy, worthless person. [Slang.] 
Marsh Yatcs, the " shitless foot," and his beautiful, en- 
ergetic wife. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 801. 
2. The devil. Hall/well. [Prov. Eng.] 
tooterH (to'ter), M. [Early mod. E. toter ; < ME. 
"totere, tixitcrc; < toofl + -erl.] 1. That which 
projects or stands out. 
Hor. The world will take her for an unicorn. . . . 
Val. Examine but this nose. 
Km. I have a toter. 
Vol. Which placed with symmetry is like a fountain 
1' the middle of her face. . . . 
.Inf. A nose of wax ! Shirley, Duke's Mistress, IT. 1. 
2. One who looks or peers; a watchman. 
These thlngus forsothe seide the Lord to me. Go, and 
put a tooterf ; and what euere thing he anal see, telle he. 
Wyd\f, Ia. xxl. 6. 
tooter 2 (to'ter), H. [Early mod. E. also toter; 
< tooft + -!.] 1. One who toots; one who 
plays upon a pipe, horn, or other wind-instru- 
ment. 
Hark, hark ! these tottrs tell us the king 's coming. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, 111. 1. 
2. That on which one toots, or on which a 
sound is produced by blowing. 
Here is a boy that loves to ... coast, skate, fire crack- 
ers, blow squash footers. O. W. Hoimes, Professor, vili. 
63 SI 
duced too- in Or. and lost in the other tongues), 
orig. Teut. "rtniitli-.'tliinil- = 1,. Irn(t-) = (.r. 
"/Aiir- = Skt. "in/mil-, etc., lit. 'eater' or , -at 
iiiK.' identical with AS. i lituli ( I,. // 
= ( !r. r&jr (/rlurr-)), eating, ppr. of etun, etc.. 
L. rilm- = <ir. IJhiv, eat: see ent.~\ 1. A hard 
(horny, dentinal, osseous, chitinous, calcare- 
ous, or silicious) body or substance, in the 
mouth, pharynx, gullet, or stomach of an ani- 
mal, serving primarily for the apprehension, 
mastication, or trituration of food, and secon- 
darily as a weapon of attack or defense, and for 
a variety of other purposes, as digging in the 
ground, climbing, articulation of vocal sounds, 
etc. In man and mammals generally teeth are confined 
to the mucous membrane of the premaxillary, supramaxll- 
lary, and itiframaxillary bones, and true teeth are present 
throughout the class, with a few exceptions. (See Kdentata, 
Monotremata.) True teeth existed In Cretaceous birds, 
as the Archjfop- 
teryx, Hejtperornu, R 
and Ichthunrnu; <i <l 
no recent birds 
have teeth. (See 
cut under Ichthy- 
ornis,) In reptiles, 
hatrachlans, ana 
lishes teeth are 
the rule ; In these 
classes they may 
be not only on the 
maxillary bones of 
either or both jaws, 
but also on the pal- 
ate-bones, pharyn- 
geal hones, vomer, 
etc. Cheloniansare 
devoid of teeth, 
their horny beaks 
answering for bit- mcnt 
i Tooth, enlarged: A, vertical sec- 
tion ; ti, horizontal section. 
. enamel of crown ; f>, pulp-cavity ; c. ce 
nt of roots or fangs ; rt, dcntirt. (In A the 
letter il is opposite the cingiilum.) 
tent, LO. tan =OHG.,.-<vH<7. c, MHG. zant, ?an, 
G. zalin = Icel. tiiiin (orig. "taiinr, "tandr) = Sw. 
Dan. tanrf = Goth. tiintlnitt (Tent, tinitl/-, timth-) 
= W. dant = Corn, dans = Bret. <lant = Olr. ilrt 
= L. dfiix (dent-) (> It. dcnte = Sp. diente = Pg. 
di-ntr = F. <lrnt, > E. dent?) = Or. Motif (OOOVT-), 
also o(!<jv (o(Sovr-) = Lith. dantis= Pere. dnndan 
= Skt. dant, tooth; perhaps with an orig. initial 
radical vowel (obscured by lack of accent, re- 
~ ...s ... .it tonts or f.inys ; rf, de 
Ing, as la also the 
case with birds. 
True teeth are usually attached to the bones of the jaws by 
being socketed hi pits or grooves called alveoli, this mode 
of articulation being termed ffompkosu. In reptiles, etc., 
the attachment to bone may be more intimate, and may 
occur in several ways, whence the terms acrodont, hfct>- 
dotU, pleurodont, tkecodont, etc. True teeth in vertebrates 
are ettderonic structures which develop from odontoblasts, 
and consist chiefly of a substance called dentin, to which 
may be added cement and enamel; which hard structures, 
as a rule, are disposed about & pulp-cavity, filled with soft 
tooth-pulp, or the nutrient and nervous structures of the 
tooth. This cavity may close up or remain wide open ; in 
the latter case, teeth grow perennially or for an indeflnite 
period. (See Glire*, /todentia.) Dentin resembles bone in 
most respect*, and differs especially in the fineness and 
parallelism of the tubules which radiate from the central 
cavity. Ivory is a variety of dentin. The hard tissues of 
teeth are sometimes intricately folded (see labyrinthodont, 
with cut); but individual teeth are aeldom compounded 
(see, however, Orycteropttdidtr). Teeth of monotremes, 
when present, are horny and not dentinal. There may be 
one or several rows of maxillary teeth, which successively 
come into position, as the molars of the elephant, or are 
simultaneously in position, as is the mle. In all mammals 
true teeth are confined toa single row, upon the bones above 
mentioned ; and in none are there more than two sets of 
teeth. Mammals with only onesetof teeth are termed mon- 
ophtfodont; those with two sets, diphyodont. In diphyo- 
0011 tmanim la the first or temporary set of teeth are termed 
milk-teeth ; these are sometimes shed in the womb ; the 
second set are the permanent teeth. According to their 
special shapes, or their special seats, teeth of diphyodonts 
are divided Into three sets tncwor*, canine*, and im-tarx. 
An incisor of the upper jaw is any tooth situated upon the 
premaxillary bone ; an incisor of the under jaw is any tooth 
of the mandible which opposes a superior incisor. An 
upper canine is the single first or most anterior tooth of 
the supramaxlllary bone; an under canine lathe tooth 
which opposes this one, and on closure of the month passes 
In front of it. A molar tooth is one of the back teeth, or 
grinders. Molars are divided into false molars, premolaw, 
or bicuspids, and true molars ; the premolars being those 
which are preceded by milk-molars, the molars proper 
being those which have no predecessors. Thus, the per- 
manent dentition of a dlphyodont mammal differs from 
the milk-dentition by the addition of tme molars. Thfa 
classification of the teeth enables us to construct conve- 
nient dental formulae. (Sec dental formula, under dental.) 
The incisors are generally simple, single- rooted, nipping 
or cutting teeth, whence the name (but see goricidcnt, with 
cut). The canine is likewise a simple tooth, but one which 
in the Carnivora, as a dog or cat, is lengthened and even 
saber-like (the name is taken from its condition In the dog, 
and retained whether this tooth be actually caniniform or 
not). The molar, grinding, or crushing teeth usually have 
more than one root or fang, and more than one cusp or 
prominence upon the crown ; they are hence called bicus- 
pid, tricuspid, multicuspid, etc., as the premolars (bicus- 
pids) and molars (multicuapids) of man ; their crowns are 
variously tuberculous, giving rise to special descriptive 
terma, as bunodont, gymborodont, bathmodont, selenodont, 
mastodont, etc., and also W-, tri-, quadri-, qirinque-tttbercu- 
late, etc. One molar or premolar above and below, in car* 
nivorous quadrupeds, is specially modified with a sharp 
crest which outs against its fellow of the other jaw like 
a scissor-blade ; such a tooth is termed gectoriaf or car- 
nassial. A tooth (incisor or canine) which projects from 
the mouth is termed a tusk or tuxh, as in the elephant, 
walrus, narwhal, wild boar and others of the pig family, 
and the fossil saber-toothed cats (Mach&rodontina>\ 
cuts under Monodon, saber-toothed, and (uK) A tooth may 
be peculiarly folded upon itself to serve as a channel for 
the conveyance of a poisonous fluid, as in the rattlesnake : 
such a tooth is termed a fang. (See poison-fang, and cut 
under Crotalus.) A tooth is commonly divided intoarrotr, 
a neck or cinyulum, embraced by the gum, and a fftnn or 
root the latter, which may be multiple, being socketed 
tooth 
in tin :ilv<"l;ir j.lorrss "f tile jliw . Any animul > vrt f 
<>rthi"-b:iiac tcrof i 
Decay of Hit- tcclh in rnnV, and u .|i-<-nying tooth ix said 
to be carious. The - 
to odmtofcvy or odmtoprapfcy. I'M pnrsiiiiiK thi* sn 
see the variollH wordH iil>v>- i!:ilii i/< <(, ami many of tin- 
cuts cited under ffta/2, as well as tlm-- nicl- i Itesmodontes, 
mnxillary, jmlatf. / 'cnlprifonn, and supra- 
maxiu 
As blak as coli' irlnon thn \vi-n- in ilede, 
Have only tbcr titln- thcr WHK noo white to see. 
!<,.-<. .'I i I .- 
Noilnir at thy metctliv t"t/i tl pykc. 
Babres llo,:l < |>. II. 
No vertebrate animal has tfeth In any part of the ali- 
mentary canal save the month anil pharynx except a 
snake (Rachlodon), which has a series of what nn 
tiiiiicil teeth, funned by the projection of thr inferior 
spinous processes of numerous anterior vertcbne Into tin- 
i.igus. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. SI. 
2. In I in-rrtebrata, one of various hard bodies, 
presenting great variety of position and struc- 
ture, which may occur in the alimentary canal 
from the mouth to the stomach, such teeth are 
always ecderonic, cuticulur. or epithelial structures, at th 
numerous teeth n[H>n the lingua! ribbon of gastropoda, as 
the snail. These are true teeth, of chltlnoim structure, 
rery numerous, and very regularly arranged In cross-rows 
each of which usually consists of differently shaped teeth 
distinguished by name (u median, admedian, mirinal, 
etc.), and the whole character of which Is Important In 
classification. (See odontophore, cuts under radula and 
riMnn, and various classificatory terms eited under radu- 
la.) Various hard hx>th-llke or Jaw-like projection! re- 
ceive the name of teeth, as certain chitinous protuberances, 
called cardiac or gastric teeth, in the stomach of the lob- 
ster, crab, etc. 
3. In ;niil., a projection resembling or likened 
to a tooth. Specifically (o) A horny process of the cat- 
ting edge of the beak of many birds, as the falcon ami 
shrike. See cut under dcntirostral. (b) A process of the 
shell in many bivalves, at or near the hinge. Thus, a ge- 
nus Anodonta is so named from the absence of these teeth, 
conspicuous in related genera. See cardinal teeth (under 
cardinal), and cuts under bimlvr, Caprotinidtr, and /'' 
eatula. (c) A tooth-like or jaw-like part (sometimes a Jaw 
Itself) of various invertebrates. See cuts under Clypcattri- 
da and lantern of Aristotle (under lantern). 
4. In hot., any small pointed marginal lobe, 
especially of a leaf: in mosses applied to the 
delicate fringe of processes about the mouth of 
the capsule, collectively known as the peristome. 
See perixtome, Musri, and cuts under ciliuni and 
Dicraimm. 5. Any projection corresponding 
to or resembling the tooth of an animal in 
shape, position, or office; a small, narrow, pro- 
jecting piece, usually one of a set. (o) One of the 
projections of a comb, a saw, a file, a harrow, or a rake. 
rheese that would break the teeth of a new hand-saw 
I could endue now like an estrich. 
Fletcher (and another). Love's Pilgrimage, IL 2. 
(6) One of the tines or prongs of a fork, (c) One of the 
sharp wires of a carding-instrument. (d) One of a series 
of projections on the edge of a wheel which catch on cor- 
responding parts of a wheel or other body ; a cog. See 
cut under pinion. 
6. pi. In a rose-cut diamond, the lower zone of 
facets. They form a truncated cone-shaped 
base for the crown. 7. In fenceriiig, the rough- 
ness made by the toothing-plane on the sur- 
faces to be gluod together to afford a good 
hold for the glue. 8. Figuratively, a fang; 
the sharp or distressing part of anything. 
Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; . . . 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen. 
Shale, As you Like it, ii. 7. ITT. 
9. Palate; relish; taste, literally or figura- 
tively. Compare a sweet ttxitli, below. 
Chart. He 's an excellent musician himself, you must 
note that. 
May. And having met one fit for his own toolh, you see, 
he skips from us 
Dcttcr and Webster, Northward Ho, IT. . 
These are not dishes for thy dainty loath. 
Driiden, tr. of Perslus's Satires, ill. 22!>. 
It was much the same everywhere affable greetings, 
pressing invitations, great courtesy, but nothing, abso- 
lutely nothing, for the impatient fooCAof a correspondent. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 8T. 
10. Keep; maintenance. HaUiicell. [Prov. 
Eng.] Addendum Of a tooth. See addendum. - 
Admedian teeth. In conch. See admedian. Armed to 
the teeth. See anned. Artificial teeth, pieces of ivo- 
ry or porcelain fashioned in the shape of natural teeth, 
used to replace the latter which have neen lost or extract- 
ed. When made of porcelain they are further known as 
incorruptible, minernt, or vitrescent (ce(A. A sweet tooth, 
a fondness for sweet food. 
I am glad that my Adonis hath a nteete tooth in his head. 
l.iibi. Euphues (ed. Artier), p. 308. 
Baslocclpital tooth. See basiocdpital.- Bicuspid 
teeth. See Wnupirf.- Bulb of a tooth, see 011(6. By 
or with the skin of one's teeth. Sec Kn. Canine 
teeth, see def. I, and caainr. Caniniform tooth, any 
tiwth, whether a canine or other, that resembles the spe- 
cialized canine of a carnivore in size and shape : as, lateral 
Incisors eaninifonn; canines not cnini/n/i. Capsule 
Of teeth, the nieinbraneof Nasmyth. See Jtastnyth's mem- 
brane, under membrane. Cardinal teeth, in roiir*., the 
hinge-teeth of a bivalve. See def. 3 (ft\ hinge-tooth, and 
