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Definition of Tooth
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Tooth
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. Fig.: Taste; palate. 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. A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk. An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. 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. To furnish with teeth. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. Related Definitions:
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Tooth Quotations
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! William Shakespeare Better a tooth out than always aching. Thomas Fuller I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. Janeane Garofalo Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dean Koontz Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Thomas Huxley |
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Tooth Translations
tooth in Danish is tand tooth in Dutch is tand tooth in Finnish is hammas tooth in French is dent, dentaire tooth in German is Zahn, verzahne, Zahn tooth in Italian is dente tooth in Latin is dens tooth in Norwegian is tann, tann tooth in Portuguese is dente tooth in Spanish is diente, dental tooth in Swedish is tand |
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