释义 |
wang-tooth Obs. exc. dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [wang1.] A cheek-tooth, molar.
a1000Laws ælfred xlix. 1 Ᵹif hit sie wongtoð, ᵹeselle 1111 scill. to bote. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 157 Molares, uel genuini, wangteð. c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. (MS. Arundel) in Wright Voc. 146 Les messeleres, wange-teȝ [read -teþ; MS. Cambr. wangeteth]. 1382Wyclif Judg. xv. 19 And so the Lord opnede a woong tooth [1388 wang tooth; Vulg. molarem dentem] in the cheek boon of the asse. c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 54 And of this asses cheke, that was dreye, Out of a wang tooth sprang anon a welle. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxiii. 191 He..bete oute my wang-teþ. 1483Cath. Angl. 406/1 A Waynge tothe [v.r. Vange tothe], genuinus, maxillaris. 1576Turberv. Venerie 182 Take them and cut away their nether Iawe wherein there wang teeth be set. 1607Markham Cavel. i. (1617) 79 His two tushes of his nether chappe, and the two wongge teeth of the same next to the tushes. 1659Somner Dict. s.v. Wang, That old rime: And in witness that this is sooth, I bite the wax with my wang tooth. 1674Ray N.C. Words s.v., The Wang-tooth; the Jaw-tooth. |