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toothed, a. (tuːθt, poet. ˈtuːθɪd) [f. tooth n. or v. + -ed.] Furnished with teeth (or a tooth). 1. lit. of an animal: Having teeth; with defining words, Having teeth of a specified kind.
13..K. Alis. 5392 (Bodl. MS.) Hij weren toþed als a man. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xlv. (1859) 51 Somme of them were tothyd as boores. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1117 Had I been tooth'd like him, I must confesse, With kissing him I should haue kild him first. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The teeth are wanting in some, others are toothed. 1860Wraxall Life in Sea i. 3 The Cetacea are subdivided into the ‘toothless’ and the ‘toothed’. b. fig. Cf. tooth n. 2. rare.
1584B. R. tr. Herodotus i. 63 The basest sorte of yonkers that were not so deyntely toothed. c. fig. ‘Biting’, pungent, corrosive. ? Obs.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] lxi. 175 Dab it with aqua fortis, toothed waters, and corroding Minerals. 1675V. Alsop Anti-sozzo ii. 65 Those Severe and Toothed Satyrs wherewith he has Torn and Lasht poor Honest Men. 2. Having natural projections or processes like teeth; dentate; indented; jagged: esp. of leaves or other parts of plants; also of the bill of birds, the margin of shells, etc. toothed vertebra, a name for the axis vertebra, from its tooth or odontoid process (Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v. Vertebra).
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 383 Perdix..took a plate of iren..and made it i-toþed as a rugge boon of a fische. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 180 Through Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 679 Leaves smooth, notched and acutely toothed. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xiii. §3 (1819) 221 The middle claw of the heron and cormorant is toothed and notched like a saw. 1859W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1866) 27 The leaves..doubly toothed at the edges. 1895Oracle Encycl. I. 594/2 The wing-margin is denticulated or irregularly toothed. 3. Made or fitted artificially with teeth or tooth-like projections: spec. of a wheel, cogged. toothed ornament (Arch.) = tooth-ornament: tooth n. 9.
1387[see 2]. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 37 A barlie rake toothed. 1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. 42 They holde their leaft hande full of Corne, and..with toothed Syckles they cut it. 1641Milton Animadv. i. Wks. 1851 III. 191 A toothlesse Satyr is as improper as a toothed sleekstone, and as bullish. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 92/2 The toothed wheel D, fixed on the axis EF. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 163 The ribs were often enriched by the toothed ornament. 1834–6Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 101/2 A toothed wheel is generally understood to be one in which the teeth are cast or cut on the wheel itself, forming one whole. 1862Rickman Goth. Archit. 294 An ornament almost as peculiar to the Decorated style as the toothed ornament [is] to the Early English. 1905Westm. Gaz. 20 June 4/2 The protest..against the use of the spring toothed-trap. 4. Comb., as toothed-billed (= tooth-billed); also freq. as the second element in parasynthetic combinations, as buck-toothed, sweet-toothed.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §136 A graffynge sawe..very thyn and thycke tothed. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 64 They are smooth and even toothed. 1706S. Sewall Diary 25 Dec., I bought me a great Tooth'd Comb at Dwight's. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 416/2 The..tribe of Dentirostres, or toothed-billed birds. |