tooth 
cut under bivalve. - Clean as a hound's tooth, perfectly 
clean ; like polished ivory. Deciduous teeth. See milk- 
tooth and dentition. DOS teeth. See dog-tooth. Ele- 
phant'S-tOOth, a kind of tooth-shell, Dentalium elephan- 
tinum. Epicycloidal teeth. See cpici/doidal (with cut). 
Eruption of teeth, the cutting or appearance of the 
teeth of any kind : dentition. Esophageal teeth. See 
rtapkaqeal, and third quotation under def. 1. Eye teeth. 
See eye-tooth. Formula Of teeth. See dental formula, 
(under dental), and def. 1. From one's teeth, not from 
the heart ; reluctantly or as a matter of form. 
When the best hint was given him, he not took 't, 
Or did It from his teeth. Shah., A. and C., iii. 4. 10. 
Gliriform teeth, any teeth that resemble the perennial 
incisors of therodents or GKres. Hen's teeth, that which 
does not exist, or which is extremely rare or unlikely. 
Compare the like use of Mack swan (under smroi). [Col- 
loq.] Hunting tooth, in toothed gearing, a single tooth, 
either of the wheel or of the pinion, more than what is re- 
quired to make the numbers of teeth in the wheel and in 
the pinion commensurable. The purpose of shunting tooth 
is to prevent the same teeth from coming into contact at 
each revolution, and thus to distribute more uniformly the 
wearing effect of friction. Incisive tooth. See incixive 
edge(n.nAer incisive), saiA incisor. In spite or despite Of 
one's teeth, despite all resistance or opposition. Shak., 
M. W. of W., v. 5. 133. In the teeth, (a) In direct oppo- 
sition or conflict. 
Four brigades, under the conduct of Sebast, . . . had no 
sooner reached the top of the hill but they met Picro- 
chole in the teeth, and those that were with him scattered. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 49. 
(6) To one's face ; openly. 
Dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth f 
Shale., C.otE.,n. 2. 22. 
In the teeth of. () Despite; in defiance of ; in opposi- 
tion to. 
As the oath taken by the clergy was in the teeth of their 
principles, so was their conduct in the teeth of their oath. 
Macaiday, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
(6) Straight against : noting direction : as, to walk in the 
teeth of the wind. 
Their vessels go only before the wind, and they had a 
strong steady gale almost directly in their teeth. 
Bntce, Source of the Nile, I. 62. 
(c) In the face or presence of ; before. 
The carrier scarcely knew what to do in the teeth of so 
urgent a message. R. D. Blackmore, Cripps the Carrier, i. 
Lateral teeth, in conch. See lateral, a., B, and n., 1 (a) 
(b). Lingual teeth. See lingual. Mandibular teeth. 
(a) The teeth of the mandible or lower jaw of any verte- 
brate, (b) The processes or serration of the mandibles of 
any insect, as a stag-beetle. Maugre one's teetht. See 
mauffre. Maxillary teeth. See maxillary. Median 
teeth, in conch., the single middle teeth of the several 
cross-rows of radular teeth, as distinguished from the 
paired admedian, lateral, or uncinal teeth of each cross- 
row. Milk-teeth. See def. 1 and milk-tooth. Molari- 
form teeth, any teeth, whether molars or others, which 
serve for crushing, or resemble true grinders in shape or 
office. Molar teeth. See def. 1, molar, n., and cut under 
mpramaxillary. Old woman's tooth. Same as router- 
plane (which see, under router). permanent, pharyn- 
geal, pitted, stomachal teeth. See the adjectives. 
Premolar teeth. See def. 1, premolar, and cuts under 
palate and supramaxillary. Radular teeth, in conch. 
See radula (with cut), and cuts under ribbon and toxoglos- 
sate. Stomach teeth. See stomach-tooth. Superadd- 
ed teeth, the six posterior permanent teeth of either jaw 
of man that is, the true molars. Teeth of succession, 
the ten anterior permanent teeth of each jaw of man, which 
succeed the milk-teeth that is, the incisors, canines, and 
premolars, as taken together, and distinguished from su- 
peradded teeth. Temporary teeth, the milk-teeth. 
To cast one's colt's tooth, to have a colt's tooth. See 
colt. To cast or throw in one's teeth, to give boldly, as 
a challenge, taunt, reproach, etc. Mat. xxvii. 44. To cut 
One's eye-teeth, to acquire worldly wisdom by experi- 
ence ; have one's wits sharpened. Compare like implica- 
tion of wisdom-tooth. to cut the teeth. See cut. To 
have (carry) a bone in the teeth. Same as to carry a 
bone in the mouth. See bonei. To hide one's teetht, to 
dissimulate one's hostility ; feign friendship. 
The jailer . . . hid his teeth, and, putting on a show of 
kindness, seemed much troubled that we should sit there 
abroad. T. Elhcood, Life (ed. Howells), p. 323. 
To nit in the teeth with, to taunt or twit with ; throw 
in the teeth of. 
If you be my friend, keep you so ; if yon have done me 
a good turn, do not hit me f the teeth with 't; that's not 
the part of a friend. 
Beau, and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, v. 1. 
To lie in one's teeth. See lie?. TO love the tooth, to 
be an epicure or gourmet. 
Very delicate dainties, . . . greatly sought by them that 
love the tooth so well. 
Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 543. (Davies.) 
To one's (the) teeth, to one's face ; openly ; boldly ; de- 
fiantly : sometimes intensified as to the hard teeth. 
Mowbray in flght him matchless honour won ; . . . 
Gifford seemed danger to her teeth to dare. 
Drayton, Barons' Wars, ii. 43. 
Tooth and nail, with biting and scratching ; hence, with 
all strength and means ; with one's utmost efforts. 
And physic will favour ale (as it is bound), 
And stand against beer both tooth and nail. 
Randolph, Commendation of a Pot of Good Ale. 
Tooth of the mentum. Sameasmentum-tooth. To set 
the teeth on edge. See edge. To show one's teeth, 
to threaten. 
When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite. 
Young, Love of Fame, i. 17. 
To take the bit in the teeth. See bill . Uncinal teeth 
in cone*. See imctnrrf. Villiform teeth. SeeMKform. 
6382 
Wisdom teeth, see wisdom-tooth. With teeth and 
all, tooth and nail. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. B. 
tooth (toth), r. [< ME. toothen, tot/icn : (.tooth, 
] I. trans. 1. To bite; taste. 
They were many times in doubt which they should 
touth first, or taste last. Oosson, Schoole of Abuse. 
2. To furnish with teeth: as, to tooth a rake. 
That towe is toothed thicke as the mesure 
Of erees wol not passe hem, upwarde bende . . . 
And every corne wol start into this chare. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 159. 
The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. 
Wordsworth. 
3. To indent; cut into teeth ; jag. 
Then saws were toothed, and sounding axes made. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's (leorgics, i. 215. 
4. To lock one in another. 
II. intrant. If. To teethe. 
When thaire crestes springe 
As seke are thay as children in tothinge. 
Palladia*, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. 
2. To interlock, as cog-wheels. 
toothache (toth'ak), . [Formerly also tooth- 
ach, toothake; < ME. tothache, < AS. tothece, < 
toth, tooth, + ece, ache: see tooth and ac/ie 1 .] 
Pain in the teeth ; odontalgia. Toothache was 
once supposed to be caused by a worm in the 
tooth. Compare worm. 
Coughes and cardiacles, crampes and tothachex. 
Piers Plowman (B), nx. 81. 
I am troubled 
With the toothache, or with love, I know not whether ; 
There is a worm in both. 
Matsinger, Parliament of Love, i. 5. 
toothache-grass (toth'ak -gras), n. A grass, 
Ctenium Americanwn, of the southern United 
States. The culm is 3 or 4 feet high, and bears a curi- 
ous dense and much-awned one-sided spike with a flat 
rachis, which is strongly curved backward. This grass 
has a very pungent taste. 
toothache-tree (toth'ak-tre), n. 1. The prick- 
ly-ash. 2. The somewhat similar Aralia spi- 
nosa, or angelica-tree, sometimes called wild 
orange. 
toothback (toth'bak), n. A tooth-backed or 
prominent bombycid moth; a pebble. See 
Notodonta. 
tooth-backed (toth'bakt), a. Having a tooth 
or prominence on the back, as a caterpillar of 
the family Notodontidse. 
tooth-bearer (toth'bar"er), . The odonto- 
phore of a vnollusk. 
toothbill (toth'bil), n. The tooth-billed pigeon 
(manu-mea) of the Samoan Islands. See cut 
under Didunculus. 
tooth-billed (toth'bild), . In ornitli., having 
one or more tooth-like processes of the horny 
integument on the cutting edges of the bill, 
(a) Dentirostral, as a falcon or a shrike. See cut under 
dentirostral. (b) Serratirostral, as a sawbill or a hum- 
ming-bird. See cut under Serratirostral. Tooth-billed 
bower-bird, a rare and remarkable bower-bird, Sceno- 
Tooth-billed Bower-bird (Sctnojxeas dintiraslrifi. 
paeiis (or Scenopceetes) dentirostris, lately discovered (1875) 
in the Rockingham Bay district of Australia. Tooth- 
billed pigeon, Didnnadus strigirostris. See cut under 
Didunculw. 
tooth-blancht (toth'blanch), 11. Something to 
whiten the teeth ; a dentifrice. 
Dentifricium, tooth-powder, tooth sope, or tooth-blanch. 
Nomenclator, 1585. (Hares.) 
tooth-brush (toth'brush), n. A small brush, 
with a long straight or curved handle, used for 
cleaning the teeth. 
toothbrush-tree (toth'brush-tre), . See Sal- 
vadora 1 . 
tooth-carpenter (toth'kar"pen-ter), w. A den- 
tist. [Humorous slang.] 
tooth-cress (toth'kres), n. Same as roraheort. 
tooth-drawert (t6th'dra"er), 11. [< ME. toth- 
draicer, totltdraware ; < tooth + drawer."} One 
who draws teeth, especially as a profession; a 
dentist.. 
Of portours and of pykeporses, and pyled [bald] toth-draw- 
ers. Piers Plowman (C), vii. 370 
His face so ill favouredly made that he looks at all times 
as if a toothdrmrer were fumbling about his gums. 
DeMter, Gull's Hornbook. 
tooth-like 
tooth-drawing (toth'dra'ing), H. The act of 
extracting a tooth; the practice of extracting 
teeth. 
toothed (totht), K. [< ME. tothed, tothyd ; < 
tooth + -ftP.] 1. Having teeth; furnished 
with teeth. 
Four maned lions hale 
The sluggish wheels ; solemn their toothed maws, 
Their surly eyes brow-hidden. Keata, Endymion, ii. 
2. Jagged ; notched ; dentate ; serrate. 
The crushing is effected by means of two grooved cyl- 
inders consisting of toothed discs. 
Spoils' Encyc. Manuf., I. 454. 
Specifically () Thorny. 
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 180. 
(6) In bot., having a series of regular or irregular project- 
ing points about the margin ; dentate : as, a toothed leaf, 
calyx, etc. ; having tooth-like projections, as the roots 
of Dentaria. (c) In orniih., having a tooth-like projection 
of the cutting edge of the bill, as a falcon's beak; denti- 
rostral. See cuts under dentirostral and Thamnophilins-. 
(rf) In conch., having a tooth-like projection, or such pro- 
jections, about the margin of a bivalve, or the aperture of 
a univalve, as a unio or a helix. See tooth, n., 3 (b), and 
cuts under bivalve, Monoceros, and Monodonta. (e) In 
anat., odontoid or dentate : noting the axis, or second cer- 
vical vertebra. See <ra'l, 3 (a). (/) In entmn., having one 
or more sharp tooth-like processes : as, a toothed margin 
or mandible. Toothed herring. See herring. Tooth- 
ed Shell. Same as tooth-shell. Toothed snails. See 
sitail. Toothed whale. SeeirAofc. Toothed wheels, 
wheels made to act upon or drive one another by having 
the surface of each indented with teeth, which fit into 
those of the other; cog-wheels. See tooth, 5 (rf), wheel, 
and cut under pinion. 
tOOthedge (toth'ej), n. [< tooth + edge.'} The 
sensation of having one's teeth set on edge ; a 
sensation excited by grating sounds and by the 
touch of certain substances ; tingling uneasi- 
ness, arising from stridulous sounds, vellica- 
tion, or acid or acrid substances. 
tooth-flower (toth'flou // er), . A rubiaceous 
plant, Dentella repens, the only species of its 
genus, a prostrate herb forming dense patches, 
found in Asia, Australia, and Polynesia. 
toothful (toth'ful), a. [< tooth + -ful, 1.] If. 
Full of teeth. 
Our mealy grain 
Our skilful! Seed-man scatters not in vain ; 
But, being covered by the tooth-full Harrow, . . . 
Rots to reviue. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
2. Toothsome; palatable. 
What dainty relish on my tongue 
This fruit hath left ! some angel hath me fed ; 
If so toothfull, I will be banqueted. 
Massinger, Virgin-Martyr, v. 1. 
toothful (toth'ful), n. [< tooth + -ful, 2.] A 
small draught of any liquor. [Colloq.] 
Step round and take a toothful of something short to our 
better acquaintance. Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. i. 
toothill (tot'hil), n. [< ME. toothil, toothillc, 
totehylle, tootlmlle, tuteliylle ; < too ft + Ml ft. 
Hence the local names foothill, Tothill, Tuttle, 
and the surnames Tuthill, Tuttle, Tattle.] A 
lookout-hill ; any high place of observation ; an 
eminence : now only as a local name. 
And in the myd place of on of hys Gardynes is a lytylle 
Monntayne, where there is a lytylle Medewe : and in that 
Medewe is a litylle Toothille with Toures and Pynacles, 
alle of Gold : and in that litylle Toothille wole he sytten 
often tyme, for to taken the Ayr and to desporten hym. 
MandecOle, Travels, p. 312. 
A Tute hylle; Aruisium montarium, specula. 
Cath. Aug., p. 398. 
toothing (to" thing), n. [Verbal n. of tooth, r.] 
In building, bricks or stones left projecting at 
the end of a wall that they maybe bonded into 
a continuation of it when required. 
toothing-plane (to'thing-plan), . A plane 
the iron of which, in place of being sharpened 
to a cutting edge, is formed into a series of 
small teeth. It is used to roughen a surface intended 
to be covered with veneer or cloth, in order to give a bet- 
ter hold to the glue. 
tooth-key (toth'ke), H. A dentists' instrument 
formerly in use for extracting teeth : so called 
because turned like a key. 
toothless (toth'les), a. [< ME. toothles; < tooth 
+ -less.'] Having no teeth, in any sense ; de- 
prived of teeth, as by age ; edentulous ; eden- 
tate; anodont. 
Sunk are her eyes, and toothless are her jaws. 
Dryden, MnelA, vii. 580. 
toothlet (toth'let), . [< tooth + -let.] 1. A 
small tooth or tooth-like process; a denticle. 
2. In lot., a tooth of minute size. 
toothleted (toth'let-ed), a. [< toothlet + -ed?.] 
In bot., having toothless; denticulate; having 
very small teeth or projecting points, as a leaf. 
tooth-like (toth'llk), . Resembling a tooth; 
odontoid ; like a tooth in situation, form, or 
function : as, toth-likr projections. 
