| 释义 |
fore-tooth|ˈfɔətuːθ|
[f. fore- prefix + tooth.]
1. One of the front teeth. rare in sing.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 157 Praecisores, foreteð. a1400Morte Arth. 1089 With..þe flesche in his fortethe fowly as a bere. c1440Bone Flor. 1609 Hys for tethe owte he spytt. 1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. (1588) 425 By..beating out his foreteeth. 1661Pepys Diary 8 May, My wife..had a foretooth drawn out to-day. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) V. xxi. 121 Our Aunt Nell has lost two more of her upper fore-teeth. 1834Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 240 One..had lost..many fore⁓teeth by a cudgel.
†2. Only in pl. The first or milk-teeth. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny vii. xvi. 164 Children breed their fore-teeth in the seventh moneth after they are borne. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop Err. iii. 187 Nature doth then give unto children their foreteeth, when they have need of solid meat. |