toothn.

Brit.

/tuːθ/, U.S.

/tuθ/

Inflections: Plural teeth

/tiːθ/.

Forms: see below, sense 1.

Etymology: Old English tóþ, tóð ( < *tanþ), Common Germanic and Common Indo-European; Old Frisian tôth, tond, (North Frisian tôth, East Frisian tond); Old Saxon tand (Middle Low German tand, tan, Low German tan; Middle Dutch tant (d), Dutch tand; Old High German zana, zan (Middle High German zant, zan, German zahn); Old Norse tǫnn ( < tanþuz; Swedish, Danish tand, Norwegian tonn); beside Gothic tunþus; < Old Germanic *tanþ- and *tunþ- < Indo-European dent, dont, dnt, whence Sanskrit dan, danta, Greek ὀδούς (ὀδόντος), Latin dens (dents), Old Irish dét (*dent), Welsh dant, Lithuanian dantìs. The termination agrees with that of present participles, whence Pott conjectured an original *ed-ont-, present participle of ed- to eat; i.e. ‘an eater’. Old English tóþ was originally a masculine consonant stem, with dative singular téþ ( < tóþi), plural nominative téþ ( < *tóþiz), genitive tóþa, dative tóþum (in early Middle English toþen). A rare plural tóþas after masculine -o^z stems also occurs. An umlaut plural is seen also in Old Frisian têth, Middle Low German tene, Low German täne, Old High German zeni, Middle High German zene, German zähne. In use the plural is much more frequent than the singular, and in some dialects the latter is sometimes assimilated to it as ‘a teeth’. A double plural teeths was formerly (and is still dialect) used in speaking of a number of persons; e.g. in spite of their teeths, plural of in spite of his teeth: see senses Phrases 1d, Phrases 2.

I. The hard, enamel-coated structures in the mouth, and related uses.

(a) In plural, the hard processes within the mouth, attached (usually in sockets) in a row to each jaw in most vertebrates except birds (but also in some extinct birds), having points, edges, or grinding surfaces, and serving primarily for biting, tearing, or trituration of solid food, and secondarily as weapons of attack or defence, and for other purposes; in singular, each of these individually.singular Old English tóð (dative téð), Old English–Middle English tóþ (Middle English toþþ Orm.), Middle English toþe, Middle English–1500s toth, tothe, tuth; Middle English tooþ ( thothe, toyth, toeth, tuthe), Middle English–1500s toothe; Middle English– tooth. (Also 1500s touthe, Scottish twth, twith, twithe, 1500s–1600s touth, 1500s– Scottish tuith. The shortened vowel in Ormin's toþþ is anomalous: see toth n.)In mammals usually consisting of dentine coated with cement around the root and with enamel in the exposed part; but in some cases horny, chitinous, or osseous. In some animals, also occurring on other parts, as the tongue or pharynx. Also, applied to similar or analogous structures occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal in some invertebrates.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]

teetha900

munpinsc1475

gams1508

peg1598

tusk1632

masticator1681

headrail1767

ivory1783

tombstone1809

dominos1828

dental1837

toothy-peg1840

fang1841

cruncher1859

chomper1884

teg1886

Hampstead Heath1887

pearly1914

gnasher1919

tat1919

pearly whites1935

chopper1937

a900 K. Ælfred Laws c. 19 Selle his agen fore, toð fore teð.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. v. 38 Ege for ege toð for toþ.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 23798 To tell þe soth, Bath me wantes tung and toth [v.r. toþe, toþ].

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4148 Ðog him lestede hise sigte brigt, And euerilc toð bi tale rigt.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. v. 38 It is said, Eiȝe for eiȝe, toth for toth.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6040 A litil beest Of tooþ is not vnfoulest.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 16 Olde wymen that..had not one toeth in her heed.

1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 A Tuthe, dens.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/1 Tothe, dent.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 107^v Pylletoris is good for the tuth ach if the tuth be wasshed with vinegre.

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) IV. ii. 11 Meddle not with a hollow Tooth.

1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 127. ⁋11 She has not a Tooth in her Head.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ii. 50 She was lean, and yellow, and long in the tooth.

(b) plural Old English tóeþ, Old English–Middle English téþ, téð, (dative Old English tóþum, -an, Middle English -en), (Middle English tieth), Middle English teþe ( teþþe, Scottish tetht), Middle English teeþ, Middle English–1500s teth, tethe, Middle English–1500s teethe, teithe, 1500s teath, ( tithe), Middle English– teeth (Scottish 1500s– teith); also Old English tóþas, 1500s tothes.

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c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1967 Suaeder, butan toðum.

c825 Vesp. Psalter iii. 8 Toeð synfulra ðu forðræstes.

c1000 Prose Life Guthlac (1848) v. 34 Heora toþas wæron gelice horses twuxan.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 104 Oft man smeaþ hwæþer teþ bænene beon.

c1200 Vices & Virt. 19 Ðar is chiueringe of toðen.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 213 His teð beoð attri as of amad dogge.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 206/228 With kene tieth al fuyrie.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 245 A furgh of lond, in which a-rowe The teth of thaddre he moste sowe.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19354 For tene þair tethe [Coll. Phys. teþþe, Fairf. teþ, Gött. teth, Trin. Cambr. teeþ] to gnast.

c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 25 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 7 Vith his tetht he wald haf refyn sone.

1483 Cath. Angl. 380/2 To drawe oute Tethe, edentare.

1486 Bk. St. Albans f vij A Rage of the teethe.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum (at cited word) Dentosus, full of teath, or hauyng many teath.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. i. sig. Tt.iij/2 [They] whet their teeth for anger.

1598 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Plutarch De Curiositate in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) xv. 3 Whan the think ther handz to slow the ad to ther tithe.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. b iij b/2 These artificialle teethe are sometimes made of Ivorye.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 166 The Carp is..amongst those..fish which..have their teeth in their throat.

1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. iii There's the woman..that sells paint and patches, iron-bodice, false teeth, and all sorts of things, to the ladies.

1812 Examiner 23 Nov. 752/2 Mrs. G. Gatehouse, in the 101st year of her age;..cut her teeth about two years since.

1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. (1873) vii. 238 Our teeth are dermal structures..developed from the deeper layer or enderon.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 115 A..lingual membrane bearing transverse rows of teeth [in the snail].

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 217 The three muscular jaws..bear at their edges in the medicinal Leech about 80–90 fine chitinoid teeth.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 348 New teeth in succession to old teeth are either formed without limit of numbers, as in most Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, or are restricted to a second set in some Mammalia.

b. spec. An elephant's tusk (projecting upper incisor tooth), as a source of ivory.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > parts of > tusk(s)

toothc1050

horn1607

fence1727

scrivello1735

fork1767

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 397/27 Eburneus dens, elpend toþ.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 73/3 The nauye..brouht..teeth of Olyphauntes.

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 70 The olyphantes tothe.

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 21 But few [elephants] have Teeth, and they males onely.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 113 The Ground was scattered with Elephants Teeth.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 325 Ivory is everywhere an evil thing... A very common way of collecting a tooth is to kill the person who owns one.

c. In expressions referring to speech (now esp. biting or angry speech).

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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4385 Þou lexst amidward þi teþ, & þer-fore haue þou maugreþ.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13941 Sal yee na leis here o mi toth.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 68 So, stammering ‘scoundrel’ out of teeth that ground As in a dreadful dream.

1913 N.E.D. at Tooth Mod. Hissing ‘Traitor!’ through his clenched teeth.

2. figurative or in figurative expressions:

a. referring to eating, esp. to the sense of taste; hence often = taste, liking (cf. palate n.). See also various phrases in Compounds.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > sense of taste

smacka1200

smatcha1200

smatching?c1225

swallow1340

swallowing1340

tastec1380

toothc1386

palatea1398

chewinga1400

savouringc1405

gustc1430

tallage1557

relish1605

the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > taste (for something)

savour?c1225

toothc1386

palate1435

taste1477

relish1590

gust1609

gusto1647

c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 449 I wol kepe it for youre owene tooth.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 36 My toyth continuly to myrth of songe was chaungyd.

1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 May in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxvi. 103 For all theis Things make you the meter for Gods tothe.

1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 8 Will you haue all for yon owne tothe?

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. G3 The Smith and the diuel hath a drie tooth in his head.

1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. xi. 432 A wanton tooth is the harbinger to luxurious wantonnesse.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 118 Well did Herodias know how to fit the tooth of her Paramour.

1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 6 And keep the best o' th' meat (forsooth) For your own Worships dainty tooth!

1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans ix. 150 He..had a great Tooth for the Dey-ship.

1851 Beck's Florist Sept. 213 What a tooth for fruit has a monkey!

(a) referring to biting or gnawing; hence denoting a hurtful, hostile, destructive, or devouring agency or quality. See also various phrases in III.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person > thing

thornc1230

plaguea1382

foea1393

evila1400

flaw1481

detriment?1504

tooth1546

fang1555

decay1563

bane1577

dagger1600

scourge1603

cursea1616

blighter1821

bacillus1883

1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) A ij It is impossible to auoide the teethe of malicious enuy.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 12 It deserues..A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time.

a1659 F. Osborne Ess. ii, in Wks. (1673) 560 Out of fear of the Iron-teeth of the Law.

1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 6 Jealousy with rankling Tooth.

a1765 E. Young Compl. Wks. (1854) II. 72 Records that defy the tooth of time.

1816 Ld. Byron Prisoner of Chillon ii That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away.

1874 D. Gray Poet. Wks. 89 'Tis April, yet the wind retains its tooth.

(b) plural denoting the ability to compel or enforce, esp. by the exaction of penalties, etc.

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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > agency or means of > ability of

tooth1925

1925 Country Gentleman 25 July 15/1 How many teeth can you put in a grower's contract of membership with a cooperative marketing association?

1931 Week-End Rev. 14 Mar. 380/1 It is even more urgent to take steps which will lead to the success of the Disarmament Conference next February than to ‘give teeth’ to the Paris Peace Pact.

1935 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 27 May 13/3 (heading) Coal control bill with teeth studied.

1949 Economist 16 Apr. 694/2 It is well that President Truman should have made quite clear, not only that the Atlantic Pact is meant to have teeth in it, but also what sort of teeth.

1963 Listener 7 Mar. 432/3 It needed guts to fight a battle against an Establishment with teeth.

1964 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 24 (heading) ‘Teeth’ put in scheme for fair coal sales.

1976 Howard Jrnl. 15 i. 29 The Magistrates' Association..asked for an order stronger than a care order to show that ‘in the last resort the law has teeth’.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > combatant personnel

tooth1946

1946 Hansard Commons 30 Oct. 690 Our job must be to secure an efficient fighting force in which the tail is kept as short as possible, and the teeth as long and as keen as possible.

1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vii. 159 As ‘Teeth’ troops (to use a phrase which was then [sc. in 1942] both new and picturesque, but has long since become a cliché) there was little to equal them; but they lacked a ‘Tail’—those ancillaries which in modern war virtually wag the dog.

1962 Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 12/2 There is, indeed, room for a ‘teeth’ role for certain units [of the Territorial Army].

1967 M. Ayub Khan Friends not Masters iv. 45 These changes gave the infantry more teeth and less tail.

1968 Listener 25 July 99/3 As for recruiting, the ‘teeth arms’ of the three Services are likely to go on attracting young men of high quality.

1977 J. Haines Politics of Power ii. 24 He knew..that the Labour Government's great ‘defence review’ had left a vast area of spending—administrative ‘tail’ as opposed to front-line ‘teeth’—almost untouched and unharmed.

II. A projecting part or point.

3. transferred. A projecting part or point resembling an animal's tooth; esp. one of a row or series of such.

a. As an artificial structure, in an implement, machine, etc.; e.g. one of the pointed projections of a comb, saw, file, rake, harrow, fork, etc.; a prong, tine; one of the series of projections on the edge of a wheel, pinion, etc., which engage with corresponding ones on another; a cog.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > tooth or prong

tinea700

tooth?1523

prong1697

sprong1756

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence > small

tinea700

bristlea1300

denticlec1400

prickle?c1425

tooth?1523

serra1800

spikelet1851

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > tooth

coga1250

tooth?1523

sprocket1655

staff1659

leaf1675

wrong1688

round1731

wrist1864

whelp1875

wrist-pin1875

pinion leaf1881

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiii^v If the rake be made of grene wode..the teth wyll fall out whan he hath moost nede to them.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 105^v [These] doo more fyll the teeth of the Sawe.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Pua The tooth of a combe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Allochons The teeth, or toothing, of a wheele, in a clocke, &c.

1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 169 But iron is never..brighter than when it hath been under the sharp teeth of the file.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 189 A great Iron Wheel, having Teeth on its edge.

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VIII. 48 The teeth, or wooden pins [of a harrow] must be made long.

1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xv. 412 Anchors were made of iron, and furnished with teeth,..fastening to the bottom of the sea.

1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Mechanics ii. vii. 27 The cogs on the surface of the wheel are generally called teeth, and those on the surface of the axle are called leaves.

1966 B. Malamud Fixer vii. iii. 239 He combed his hair and beard until the teeth of the comb fell out.

b. As a natural structure, in animals, plants, etc.; e.g. the odontoid process of the axis vertebra; a projecting point in the upper mandible of the bill in certain birds (cf. dentiroster n.); each of a row of small projections on the edge of one valve of the shell in some bivalve molluscs; each of the pointed processes on the margin of leaves or other parts in many plants (cf. dentate adj.), or of those forming the peristome of the capsule in mosses; also, generally, a projecting point of rock, etc.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > tooth-like part of vertebra

tooth1701

the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > tooth-like part

tooth1796

toothlet1801

the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > upper or lower beak > part or process of upper beak

nail1769

tooth1847

prokinesis1962

rhynchokinesis1963

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > parts of

beard1649

hinge1704

cardo1725

palpus1803

disc1810

ligament1816

palp1835

tooth1847

hinge-tooth1851

beak1854

curtain1854

talon1854

resilium1895

hinge-ligament1909

1701 tr. D. Tauvry New Rational Anat. ii. xvi. 268 This second Vertebra has an Apophysis call'd the Tooth..The Head and the first vertebra..are qualified to turn upon that Axis.

?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 63 A small rugged Shell... Its Navel small with a Tooth or Knag in the Mouth.

a1713 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica (1714) 249/1 Axis..is a Name which rather befits the former Vertebra, whose Tooth resembles an Axle.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 253 Cal[yx]. Cup 1 leaf, concave, but expanding, with 5 teeth, permanent.

1815 Encycl. Brit. III. 289 Axis..the second vertebra of the neck; it hath a tooth which goes into the first vertebra and this tooth is by some called the axis.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. iv. §361 Its [the upper mandible of a bird of prey] edge is notched, so as to form a kind of projecting tooth on either side.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. xviii. §932 This hinge [in the shell of a bivalve mollusc] is sometimes formed..by a number of little projections or teeth, which fit into corresponding hollows in the opposite valve.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 88 (Toad-flax)..capsule swollen,..opening by valves or teeth.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) v. 125 Great rocky teeth, striking up through their icy covering, like the edge of a saw.

1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 210 The long stiff leaves, edged with sharp teeth.

c. An accidental jag or uneven projection at the edge of something.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence > uneven or accidental

snag1586

snub1590

tooth1612

rag1683

tit1884

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 29 You may make your pen of the best of the quil, & where you see the cleft to be the cleanest, & without teeth.

d. A rough surface on paper, canvas, etc., such as to enable pencil-marks, colours, etc. to adhere; a roughness made by a toothing-plane on surfaces to be glued together, to promote adhesion of the glue. (Only in singular)

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness > rough surface

grain1390

tooth1811

frosting1864

rasp1869

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 525 The tooth or grain of the paper catching the crayons in dots.

1884 Cent. Mag. 29 205/2 The substance worked upon being commonly rough paper, to the ‘tooth’ or burr of which the color partially adheres.

1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 232 [It] is roughened by rubbing it with coarse glass paper. This gives it a kind of ‘tooth’.

1906 R. C. Bayley Compl. Photographer 382 A polished sheet of copper..has its surface treated in some way to give it a very fine grain or tooth... Fine bitumen dust is generally employed.

e. plural. The lower zone of facets in a rose-diamond.

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1877 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III.

f. plural. figurative. A ship's guns. Nautical slang.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively

armament1668

metal1751

tooth1806

1806 J. Davis Post-Captain iv. 19 ‘She looks, sir, like a whacking frigate.’ ‘Can you see her teeth?’ ‘Yes, sir; she has a very heavy tire of teeth.’

1810 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. (1820) III. 291 The ship had no teeth, as the sailors say, when they mean great guns.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. vii. 101 They were..large schooners..showing a very good set of teeth.

1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah ii There's at least three rows of teeth beneath that mass of spars.

Phrases

P1. in the teeth, in one's teeth.

a. In direct (local) opposition or attack; in the teeth of, in direct opposition to, so as to face or confront, straight against.

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the world > space > relative position > opposite position > opposite [phrase]

in the teeth1297

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance

to one's face, teethc1000

in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230

in the teeth1297

maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325

maugre his nosec1325

despitec1380

in (the) maugre (of)c1450

in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537

in the teeth of1792

malgré lui1796

the world > space > relative position > opposite position > opposite [preposition] > facing

in the teeth of1833

aface of1859

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls.) 8404 Our lord..þe smoke þat hii made..Riȝt in hor owe teþ bigan hom euene sende.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades viii. 138 A Hector, who no lesse desires to meete them in the teeth.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 18 The Wind is right in our teeth.

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War iii. x, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 837 Others..met the enemy in the teeth.

1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 160 They..had run into the teeth of a heavy barge full of armed men.

1892 E. Lawless Grania II. 7 He..had run across in the teeth of the rising gale.

b. in the teeth of, in direct and manifest opposition to, in defiance of, in spite of.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance

to one's face, teethc1000

in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230

in the teeth1297

maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325

maugre his nosec1325

despitec1380

in (the) maugre (of)c1450

in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537

in the teeth of1792

malgré lui1796

1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 160 State necessity will be urged in the teeth of policy, humanity, and justice.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 280 In no civil case would a counsel have been permitted to plead his client's case in the teeth of the law.

1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) x. 128 Why do you continue to live here, in the teeth of these repeated warnings?

1885 Law Times 13 June 113/1 A judge has no right to enter judgment in the teeth of the finding of a jury.

c. in the teeth of, in the presence of, in the face of; usually implying hostility or danger; threateningly confronted by.

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1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 512 They were in fact in the very teeth of starvation.

1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxvii. 381 His post was in the teeth of danger.

1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps i The Carrier scarcely knew what to do in the teeth of so urgent a message.

d. to cast (one) in the teeth with (something), later to cast (a thing) in one's teeth (see cast v. 65), †to hit (one) in the teeth with (obsolete), to throw in (one's) teeth: to reproach, upbraid, or censure with; to bring up in reproach against. (In quot. 1596 at Phrases 2 to throw in (one's) teeth = to send or direct defiantly against: cf. Phrases 1b, Phrases 3b.) Also in similar phrases expressing reproachful or defiant utterance.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > reproach with

upbraida1250

undernimc1320

to lay to one's credit, reproachc1515

to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526

to twit (a person) in the teeth1530

to hit (one) in the teeth with1535

to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551

to fling (anything) in one's teeth1587

to throw (thrust, fling, (etc.)) (something) in a person's face1597

to tit (a person) in the teeth1622

nose1625

exprobrate1630

puta1663

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xxvii. 44 The murtherers also that were crucified with him, cast the same in his tethe.

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. b iv^v Take it not that I hit you here in the teeths with oure good turnes.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 147 Some..will not sticke to hit him in the teeth, that he was the sonne of [etc.].

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 42 To armes, for I haue throwne A braue defiance in king Henries teeth.

1614 J. Day Dyall Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3^v Caius of Cambridge did twit vs in the teeth with some of our Founders here in Oxford that had beene themselues Cambridge Men.

1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 53 He giueth to all liberally, and hitteth no man in the teeth.

1640 Sir W. Boswell in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Misc. Lett. 27 The main things that they hit in our teeth are, our Bishops to be called Lords.

1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables xiii. 441 This neglect of family-devotions is often thrown in our teeth.

a1821 J. Keats Otho iv. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 181 In thy teeth I give thee back the lie!

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 441/2 Perpetually throwing in the teeth of the second wife the unrivalled virtues..of the first.

P2. in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teeth: notwithstanding one's opposition or resistance; in spite of one, in defiance of one. Now rare exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance

to one's face, teethc1000

in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230

in the teeth1297

maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325

maugre his nosec1325

despitec1380

in (the) maugre (of)c1450

in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537

in the teeth of1792

malgré lui1796

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding

though-whetherc897

nathelesseOE

though971

whetherOE

yetOE

neverlOE

what for-thyc1175

nethelessa1200

never the latterc1225

algatec1230

in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230

nought for thatc1275

(all) for noughtc1325

(in) spite of one's nosec1325

alway1340

thoughless1340

ne'er the later (also latter)a1382

ne'er the lessa1382

neverlatera1382

neverthelessa1382

ne for-thia1400

neverlessa1400

not-againstandinga1400

nauthelessc1400

nouthelessc1400

algatesc1405

noughtwithstanding1422

netherless?a1425

notwithstanding1425

nethertheless1440

not gainstandingc1440

not the lessa1450

alwaysa1470

howbeit1470

never þe quedera1475

nought the lessc1480

what reck?a1513

nonetheless1533

howsomever1562

after all1590

in spite of spite1592

meantime1594

notwithstand1596

withal1596

in the meanwhile1597

meanwhile1597

howsoever1601

in (one's) spite?1615

however1623

in the meantime1631

non obstante1641

at the same time1679

with a non-obstante to1679

stilla1699

the same1782

all the same1803

quand même1825

still and all1829

anyhow1867

anyway1876

still and ona1894

all the samey1897

just the same1901

but1939

c1230 Hali Meid. 47 He ȝarkeð þe unþonc hise teð þe blisse & te crune of cristes icorene.

a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 5840 He..maugre þe teeþ of hem alle Sette his rigge to þe walle.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 86 He putte theym to flight, magre their teeth.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Eii A greate man kepeth certaine landes of hyrs from hyr, & wilbe hyr tenaunte in the spite of hyr tethe.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Pvi Spyte of there tethes wrestynge owt of theire handes the sure & vndowted victory.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 438 Compelling him..to be liberall in despite of his teeth.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 115/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Which perforce and maugre of his teeth compelled him to retire with shame.

1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. v. xv. 186 Constrained them spite of their teeths to depart the towne.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iv. ix. 103 Noble men which maugre thy teeth mount to authoritie.

1689 E. Hickeringill Ceremony-monger iii, in Wks. (1716) II. 482 Let the People go whistle, they are their Feeders and Pastors in Spight of their Teeths.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 32 [We] will go on with Law-suit in spite of John Bull's Teeth.

1835 Court Mag. 6 74/2 Pleasing herself before his very eyes, in spite of his teeth.

P3. to the teeth.

a. So as to be completely equipped; very fully or completely: in armed to the teeth; so entrenched up to their teeth.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective]

weaponedc1000

armedc1300

well-armedc1300

well-weaponeda1325

armed to the teethc1380

well-steeledc1390

warlikec1420

anarm1426

boden1429

well-harnesseda1450

geared1488

well-geared1488

well-boden1496

warly1508

enarmedc1540

burled1616

undisarmed1649

of (good) force1697

tooled up1959

weaponized1973

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2707 Þey wern y-armed in-to þe teþ & araid wel for þe fiȝt.

14.. Lybeaus Disc. 460 All yarmed to the teth.

1708 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 328 The French..are intrench't up to their teeth.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. xi. 43 Everybody in Spain travels armed to the teeth.

b. to (one's) teeth, to the teeth of: intensive of ‘to one's face’; directly and openly; defiantly; also, so as directly to face, confront, or oppose.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > openly [phrase]

not to (or at) laina1375

with (an) open facea1425

to (one's) teeth1542

to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 319 Cicero mocked hir to the harde teeth with sembleyng that he graunted hir saiyng [etc.].

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Liv ^v Though I praise you to your teeth.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 55 That I liue and tell him to his teeth Thus didst thou.

1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 79 Which..plainly gives them the lye unto their Teeths.

1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius i. 4 Now Rome's last Stake of Liberty is set, And must be pusht for to the Teeth of Fortune.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 189 The Foot.. coming close up to the Teeth of one another.. fought with great Resolution.

c. So as to be utterly committed; up to the teeth: heavily involved or absorbed.

ΚΠ

1934 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 June (1938) 805 At the moment we are all up to the teeth in 5 more target boats.

1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. a11/6 A young farmer who is starting out and he's mortgaged to the teeth at the bank would not look at it the same way.

d. fed (up) to the (back) teeth: see fed to the (back) teeth at fed adj. 3.

P4.

a. tooth and nail (originally with tooth and nail) adverbial phr.: literal with the use of one's teeth and nails as weapons; by biting and scratching: almost always figurative, in the way of vigorous attack, defence, or action generally; vigorously, fiercely, with one's utmost efforts, with all one's might.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour

mainc1400

vigorous1524

tooth and naila1535

robust1652

robustic1652

strenuous1671

lusty1672

vigorous1697

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [phrase] > with all one's might

(at, by, with) all one's mightOE

by (also by one's) powerc1300

with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330

at (also at all, after) one's power1384

upon one's powerc1400

to (the best of, the uttermost of, the extent of) one's power?a1425

tooth and naila1535

with tooth and naila1535

with both hands1549

with teeth and alla1600

horse and footc1600

with all one's force1677

for all it's worth1864

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxii. sig. T.ii They would fayne kepe them as long as euer they mighte, euen with tooth and nayle.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 16 Contending with tuith and naill (as in the prouerb).

1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 46^v To perswade them tooth and naile, not to cleaue vnto that doctrine.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 51 M. Harding fighteth for it tooth and nail.

1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 118 He will helpe it forward with tooth and naile.

1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xv. xi, in Wks. 431 Salome, and her Faction were Tooth and Nail for Dispatching her out of Hand.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 156 She flew in her Face Tooth and Nail.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 26 July (1941) 81 To-morrow I resume the Chronicles, tooth and nail.

1892 T. H. Huxley Let. 26 May in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. xviii. 312 I am ready to oppose any such project tooth and nail.

attributive.1872 B. Jerrold London xiv. 116 Honourable instinct making a tooth-and-nail fight against adverse circumstances.1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 509/1 The tooth-and-nail fight to which they and their children were condemned.

†b. So with teeth and all. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [phrase] > with all one's might

(at, by, with) all one's mightOE

by (also by one's) powerc1300

with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330

at (also at all, after) one's power1384

upon one's powerc1400

to (the best of, the uttermost of, the extent of) one's power?a1425

tooth and naila1535

with tooth and naila1535

with both hands1549

with teeth and alla1600

horse and footc1600

with all one's force1677

for all it's worth1864

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie viii. vi. §2 Even with teeth and all they that favour the papal throne must hold the contrary.

P5.

†a. to have the teeth cold, to have cold at the teeth: to suffer hunger, go hungry (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > be starving

starvelOE

enfaimlec1475

to have cold at the teeth1484

to have the teeth cold1484

famish1535

to famish away1535

famine1553

starve1578

clem1600

affamish1622

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. xv Suche weren fayre gownes and fayr gyrdels of gold that haue theyr teeth cold at home.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. xvii He that werketh not..shal haue ofte at his teeth grete cold.

b. from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s) (also simply from one's teeth, and elliptical. teeth outward(s)): formally or feignedly, in profession but not in reality (opposed to from the heart).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb]

askancesc1450

hollowlya1547

from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s)1561

teeth outward(s)1561

unsincerelya1575

hollow1607

insincerely1625

fictly1677

with (one's) tongue in (one's) cheek1842

phonily1936

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. ii. f. 3 That is but a laughter from the teeth forward, because inwardly the worme of conscience gnaweth them much more sharpely than al whose searyng yrons.

1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. G3 Manye of them like vs but from the teeth outward.

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 267 They met..and from the teeth forwarde departed good friends againe.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. lxxxviii. 459 They love not [one another], or but teeth outward.

1815 J. Hogg Let. 28 Feb. in J. G. Lockhart Life Sir W. Scott (1853) viii. 348 To be friends from the teeth forwards is common enough.

†c. to hide one's teeth: figurative to conceal malice or hostile intention under a show of friendliness (opposed to to show one's teeth) (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > be hypocritical [verb (intransitive)]

Pharisee1598

hypocrise1680

to hide one's teetha1713

hypocrify1716

hypocritizea1734

Chadbandize1913

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 230 The Goaler..hid his Teeth,..putting on a shew of Kindness.

†d. to love the tooth: to be fond of eating, to be an epicure (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > be epicure [verb (intransitive)]

epicurize1600

to love the tooth1610

to epicure it1628

to eat well1677

opsophagize1854

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 543 Meates..greatly sought for by these that love the tooth so well.

e. to set one's teeth: to press or clench one's teeth firmly together from indignation, or fixed resolution as in facing danger, opposition, or difficulty; hence figurative or allusively; see also set v.¹ 95.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 15 Now set the Teeth, and stretch the Nosthrill wide.

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode Epil. You..set your teeth when each design fell short.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. ix. 230 ‘If this should prove truth,’ said the Duke, setting his teeth, and pressing his heel against the ground.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xxxvii. 37 She set her teeth when she thought of Arthur: she cursed him.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 350 Her teeth were set hard, and her brow was knit.

f. to show one's teeth: literal to uncover the teeth by withdrawing the lips from them, esp. as a beast in readiness for biting or attack; usually figurative to show hostility or malice, to behave in a threatening way.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > be hostile [verb (intransitive)] > show hostility

to show one's teeth1615

aggress1951

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > behave threateningly

to show one's teeth1615

1615 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 361 It were to no purpose to show our teeth unless we could bite.

1710 O. Sansom Acct. Life 330 He somewhat appeared at the Sessions at Wantage; shewing his Teeth in what he could; and thereby discovering what lodged in his Heart against us.

1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire I 2 When the Law shews her teeth, but dares not Bite.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. i. 5 Such Patriotism as snarls dangerously, and shows teeth.

g. the teeth water: a variant of the mouth waters: see mouth n. 2c (? obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [verb (intransitive)] > secrete saliva > flow in mouth

to make a person's mouth watera1586

the teeth water1600

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xxx. 269 At it their teeth water, that most goodly and beautifull cittie will they either destroy, or be LL. thereof themselves.

1693 Eng.–Lat. Dict. in A. Littleton Linguæ Romanæ dictionarium Tooth... It makes my teeth water. Salivam mihi movet.

1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle v. i. 57 O my litlte [sic] Green Gooseberry, my Teeth waters at ye.

1879 [see teeth-watering n. at Compounds 2].

h. to get one's teeth into: to become engrossed in; to come to grips with, to begin serious work on.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin an action or fall to doing something > resolutely or vigorously

to sit in1736

strap1823

to get down1826

tackle1841

to buckle down (to)1865

to bite on1904

to wade into1904

to get stuck into1910

to get one's teeth into1935

to sink one's teeth into1935

to get stuck in1938

to get to grips with1947

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night i. 23 If one could work here steadily..getting one's teeth into something dull and durable.

1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vi. 140 American eagerness to get their teeth into the enemy.

1983 G. Mitchell Cold, Lone, & Still x. 111 He's not the man to let go while he's got his teeth into a suspect.

i. For other phrases see the words involved, asto take the bit in one's teeth (bit n.¹ Phrases 1), to carry a bone in the teeth (bone n.¹ Phrases 1h), colt's tooth (colt n.¹ 8), to cut one's teeth (cut v. 39), to set the teeth on edge (edge n. 4), to grind one's teeth (grind v.¹ 10), to have the run of one's teeth (run n.² Phrases 5a), long in the tooth (long adj.¹ and n.¹ Phrases 3h), by or with the skin of one's teeth (skin n. Phrases 7), a sweet tooth (sweet adj.). For to lie in one's teeth, see 1c.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive. Also many others of obvious meaning.

(a)

tooth-dint n.

ΚΠ

1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy III. viii. 419 Day seems struggling into shape beneath his mask of rock, and Twilight shows everywhere the tooth-dint of the chisel.

tooth-dye n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the teeth

tooth-stainer1762

tooth-dye1884

1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 312/1 Adding to crude or branch lacquer, about 5 per cent. of the tooth dye (haguro) used by women.

tooth-extraction n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > extraction of teeth

tooth-drawing1610

tooth-pulling1850

extraction1878

tooth-extraction1898

exodontia1913

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. iv. 89 In such patients..tooth extraction..may prove a dangerous matter.

tooth-point n.

tooth-stainer n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the teeth

tooth-stainer1762

tooth-dye1884

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 7 Your nose-borers, feet-swathers, tooth-stainers, eye brow pluckers.

tooth-stump n.

ΚΠ

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3533 Improved tooth-stump instrument.

(b)

tooth-bred adj.

ΚΠ

1642 A. Ross Mel Heliconium (1643) 68 And then the Dragon, he did wound And all his toothbread sonnes confound.

tooth-chattering adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > having teeth chattering

tooth-chattering1887

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool > causing sensation of coldness > causing shivering, etc.

shiveringc1200

shrugging1598

thrillinga1616

teeth-chattering1796

shivery1839

tooth-chattering1887

shiversome1930

1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain 73 A tooth-chattering cook.

1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iii. 80 Alone..in this tooth-chattering desert.

tooth-extracting adj.

tooth-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > specific shape

mural1774

tooth-like1835

blind1848

teeth-like1884

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 312/1 A tooth-like process on either side [of the bill].

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 105 The toothlike aching ruin of the body.

tooth-setting adj.

ΚΠ

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 140 Tooth-drawers and Tooth-setting Chyrurgions.

tooth-shaped adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [adjective] > tooth-shaped

dentiformed1578

dentiform1694

tooth-shaped1837

1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 292 Peristomium..consists of a circular and double row of fine and tooth-shaped substances.

tooth-tempting adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective]

likingeOE

goodOE

lickerousc1275

deliciousa1325

daintya1382

dainteousc1386

daintiful1393

delicatea1398

merrya1398

savourlyc1400

liciousc1420

savourousa1425

daintethc1430

lustyc1430

feelsomea1450

nuttya1450

seasonablea1475

delicativec1475

unctuous1495

well-tasteda1500

daintive1526

savoury1533

exquisite1561

spicy1562

well-relished?1575

finger-licking1584

toothsome1584

taste-pleasinga1586

daint1590

relishsome1593

lickerish1595

tastesome1598

friand1599

tooth-tempting1603

relishing1605

well-relishing1608

neat1609

hungry1611

palate-pleasing1611

tasteful1611

palatea1617

tastya1617

palatable1619

toothful1622

sipid1623

unsoured1626

famelic1631

tasteablea1641

piquant1645

sapid1646

saporousa1670

slape1671

palativea1682

flavorous1697

nice1709

well-flavoured1717

gusty1721

flavoury1727

fine-palated1735

unrepulsive1787

degustatory1824

zesty1826

peckish1845

mouth-watering1847

flavoursome1853

unreasty1853

unrancida1855

relishy1864

toothy1864

flavoured1867

tasty-looking1867

hungrifying1886

velvety1888

snappy1892

zippy1911

savoursome1922

delish1953

the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > promoting appetite

tooth-tempting1603

piquant1645

appetizing1653

moreish1691

peckish1845

mouth-watering1847

appetitive1864

tasty-looking1867

hungrifying1886

zippy1911

1603 W. Fowldes Strange Battell Frogs & Mise sig. D No tooth-tempting fare.

b. See also toothbrush n., toothpick n., tooth-shell n., etc.

tooth-axe n. ‘a stone-cutters' axe the edges of which are divided into blunt teeth’ ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.).

tooth-back n. a moth of the family Notodontidæ, or its larva, which has a tooth-like prominence on the back.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Notodontidae > member of (tooth-back)

tooth-back1872

1872 J. G. Wood Insects at Home 470 A family of Moths called Notodontidæ, or Tooth-backs.

tooth-backed adj.

tooth-bearer n. = odontophore n.

† tooth-blanch n. Obsolete a substance for whitening the teeth, a dentifrice.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice

tooth-powder1542

dentifrice1558

rubber1558

tooth-blanch1585

tooth-soap1607

tooth-stick1729

toothpaste1832

tooth wash1871

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 260/2 Dentifricium,..tooth powder: tooth sope, or tooth blanch.

tooth-block n. a block forming part of a machine for moulding in sand the iron teeth of a gear-wheel.

tooth-bone n. (a) = dentine n.; (b) the bony substance or ‘cement’ of the teeth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > dentine

ivory1828

dentine1845

osteodentine1849

vitro-dentine1849

tooth-ivory1851

plicidentine1852

tooth-bone1853

1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) (at cited word) The ivory of the tooth or Dentine,..proper tooth substance, bone of the tooth, osseous substance of tooth, tooth bone.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 535 The portion of the case that forms the root or roots is covered by ‘crusta petrosa’, or tooth bone.

tooth-chisel n. a chisel with a toothed or serrated cutting edge, used by stone-masons.

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tooth-cleaner n. a machine for dressing and finishing the teeth of cog-wheels (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884).

tooth-comb n. (a) a small-tooth comb; usually in figurative use; also attributive and as v. transitive, to investigate minutely; cf. fine-tooth adj.; (b) Zoology a group of procumbent lower front teeth found in tree shrews and lemurs.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Scandentia (tree-shrews) > [noun] > parts of

tooth-comb1893

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)]

through-seekOE

gropea1250

to search outa1382

ensearch1382

boltc1386

examinea1387

ransackc1390

ripea1400

search1409

overreach?a1425

considerc1425

perquirec1460

examec1480

peruse?1520

grounda1529

study1528

oversearch1532

perscrute1536

scrute1536

to go over ——1537

scan1548

examinate1560

rifle1566

to consider of1569

excuss1570

ripe1573

sift1573

sift1577

to pry into ——1581

dive1582

rub1591

explore1596

pervestigate1610

dissecta1631

profound1643

circumspect1667

scrutinize1671

perscrutatea1679

introspect1683

rummage1690

reconnoitre1740

scrutinate1742

to look through1744

scrutiny1755

parse1788

gun1819

cat-haul1840

vivisect1876

scour1882

microscope1888

tooth-comb1893

X-ray1896

comb1904

fine-tooth comb1949

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] > instrument of

fine-tooth comb1852

tooth-comb1893

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [adjective] > of scrutiny: close, rigorous

narroweOE

searching1648

close1662

subsoil1882

tooth-comb1893

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > member of family Lemuridae > parts of

tooth-comb1893

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > selecting from a number or for a purpose > instrument of fine selection

tooth-comb1893

1893 Westm. Gaz. 24 Apr. 4/3 The force was a mere toothcomb in the face of the rioters.

1902 Sat. Rev. 1 Nov. 556/1 The rake with which Mr. Nield gathers together his authors is a very tooth-comb.

1918 Daily Chron. 25 Jan. 3/7 The Army behind the front is being tooth-combed of all men fit for the fighting line.

1924 Glasgow Herald 28 Aug. 4/2 She was a strong woman, well accustomed to ‘toothcomb’ her husband's MS.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 749/3 Whatever the ‘tooth-combs’ of Dr. Hotson's fellow-scholars may leave of it, he must be congratulated on his discovery.

1958 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Apr. 68/4 The three officers start their own toothcomb check of their huge ship.

1962 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 20 128/1 The closely spaced incisors [of lemurs] seem to scrape the fur rather than comb it. The use of the term ‘tooth comb’ may be, therefore, objectionable.

1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Aug. 946/1 A novel which has been picked over with toothcombs, in search of clues to ‘The Mystery’.

1977 Listener 7 Apr. 442/1 Decides whether the bid is contentious enough to be toothcombed by the mergers panel.

1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons i. xi. 110 The four men and one woman trained after a toothcomb selection.

1981 Times 16 Feb. 14/4 Tooth combs are found today in tree shrews..as well as in the lemurs and lorises.

tooth-coralline n. = sertularia n.

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1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man iv. 73 The Sertulariæ or tooth-corallines.

tooth-cress n. = toothwort n. 3.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > toothwort or pepperwort

dentarie1578

coralwort1597

toothed violet1597

toothwort1668

dentaria1819

crinkleroot1847

pepperwort1854

tooth-cress1863

1863–79 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Tooth-cress, or Tooth-Violet,..Dentaria bulbifera.

tooth-doctor n. a dentist.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentist

tooth-drawer1393

operator1598

dentist1759

dentologist1760

tooth-doctor1767

odontist1819

tooth-puller1839

dental surgeon1840

gum-digger1941

1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 300 'Tis the celebrated tooth-doctor—he takes out your old teeth without any pain.

tooth-edge n. the sensation of having the teeth ‘set on edge’ (see edge n. 4).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth

toothache1377

teeth-workc1440

tooth-warkc1480

the worma1583

tooth-pain?1593

odontalgy1651

odontalgia1706

tooth-aching1709

tooth-edge1794

teeth-ache1890

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. iii. 22 The disagreeable sensation called the tooth-edge.

tooth fairy n. a fairy believed by children to take away milk teeth and leave a small sum of money; also transferred.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > imaginary persons or creatures

man in the moon1596

Briarean1598

phantasim1598

mooncalf1638

splacknuck1726

Idomenian1764

little green man1802

ring-tailed roarer1828

Belsnickel1830

ice worm1830

catawampus1843

whangdoodle1852

Prince Charming1855

boojum1876

snark1879

Easter rabbit1881

Easter bunny1900

death moth1910

Moomin1950

energy vampire1967

tooth fairy1977

1977 Age (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 15/5 Who do you suppose pays for the $50 billion difference? The tooth fairy? Hardly. You do.

1977 Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 45/4 Anyone who thinks they acted alone must also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

1978 J. Hyams Pool xi. 163 Alan had ceased to believe in miracles at about the same age he stopped believing in the Tooth Fairy.

tooth-fern n. a rendering of Odontopteris, a genus of fossil ferns.

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1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 37 The Odontopteris, or tooth-fern.

tooth-fever n. fever accompanying teething.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers

fever hectica1398

emitrichie1398

hectic1398

etisie1527

emphysode fever1547

frenzy-fever1613

purple fever1623

prunella1656

marcid fever1666

remittent1693

feveret1712

rheumatic fever1726

milk fever1739

stationary fever1742

febricula1746

milky fever1747

camp-disease1753

camp-fever1753

sun fever1765

recurrent fever1768

rose fever1782

tooth-fever1788

sensitive fever1794

forest-fever1799

white leg1801

hill-fever1804

Walcheren fever1810

Mediterranean fever1816

malignant1825

relapsing fever1828

rose cold1831

date fever1836

rose catarrh1845

Walcheren ague1847

mountain fever1849

mill fever1850

Malta fever1863

bilge-fever1867

Oroya fever1873

hyperpyrexia1875

famine-fever1876

East Coast fever1881

spirillum fevera1883

kala azar1883

black water1884

febricule1887

urine fever1888

undulant fever1896

rabbit fever1898

rat bite fever1910

Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911

sandfly fever1911

tularaemia1921

sodoku1926

brucellosis1930

Rift Valley fever1931

Zika1952

Lassa fever1970

Marburg1983

1788 C. Smith Emmeline IV. xi. 250 The child was very ill once with a tooth fever.

tooth-flower n. a name for Dentella repens, a small creeping herb found in Australia, Polynesia, etc., having a tooth-like process on each petal of the flower.

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1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Tooth-flower, Australian, Dentella repens.

tooth-forceps n. a forceps used by a dentist for extracting teeth.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth

tooth-iron1483

pelican1598

tooth-drawer1598

dog1611

snap1611

plychon1688

pullikins1688

screw pelican1688

tooth-wrest1706

pounce1742

key instrument1762

key1774

punch1826

tooth-key1827

tooth-forceps1844

turnkey1855

1844 W. Dufton Nature & Treatm. Deafness 91 A pair of tooth-forceps was..employed.

tooth-germ n. the ‘germ’ or growth of tissue from which a tooth is developed.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > growth of tissue from which tooth is developed

tooth-germ1841

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 460/2 The number of successive tooth-germs..behind the..functional teeth.

tooth-glass n. (a) (see quot. 1858); (b) a glass used to hold false teeth.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > vessel to hold false teeth

tooth-glass1858

tooth-mug1891

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > lip-glass or tooth-glass

wash-tumbler1774

lip-glass1825

tooth-glass1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 384/2 Tooth-glass, a toilet water-glass for washing the mouth.

1915 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 411 That plate of the four lower ones in the blue tooth-glass.

1978 G. Greene Human Factor v. iii. 286 The toothglasses were swathed in plastic.

† tooth-iron n. Obsolete ? an instrument for extracting teeth.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth

tooth-iron1483

pelican1598

tooth-drawer1598

dog1611

snap1611

plychon1688

pullikins1688

screw pelican1688

tooth-wrest1706

pounce1742

key instrument1762

key1774

punch1826

tooth-key1827

tooth-forceps1844

turnkey1855

1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 A Tuthe yren, dentaria.

tooth-ivory n. = dentine n.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > dentine

ivory1828

dentine1845

osteodentine1849

vitro-dentine1849

tooth-ivory1851

plicidentine1852

tooth-bone1853

1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions iii. §5. 255 The central body of dentine or tooth-ivory.

† tooth-key n. Obsolete a dentist's instrument, turned like a key, formerly used for extracting teeth.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth

tooth-iron1483

pelican1598

tooth-drawer1598

dog1611

snap1611

plychon1688

pullikins1688

screw pelican1688

tooth-wrest1706

pounce1742

key instrument1762

key1774

punch1826

tooth-key1827

tooth-forceps1844

turnkey1855

1827 N. Arnott Elements Physics I. 247 The tooth-key is an instrument found in many hands.

tooth-mark n. a mark made by a tooth in biting, or transferred by an edged tool.

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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > other traces or vestiges

staddle1691

Indian sign1805

geological record1811

powder mark1823

earmark1836

rock record1851

tool-mark1865

staddle-stead1868

staddle-mark1876

waterline1876

posthole1888

tooth-mark1889

pollen count1926

snake mark1929

parch mark1947

tranchet blow1949

posthole pattern1950

posthole evidence1962

1889 C. C. Rhys Up for Season 53 A tooth-mark left me by her black-and-tan.

tooth-marked adj.

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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [adjective] > having tooth-mark

tooth-marked1831

1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 52 Buttered toast, half eaten, and tooth-marked.

tooth-mill n. a dentist's drill-stock or drilling-machine.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills

burr1859

burr-drill1859

drill1859

foot drill1860

tooth-mill1879

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §109 The dentist's tooth-mill is an..illustration of the elastic universal flexure joint.

tooth-mug n. = tooth-glass n. (b).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > vessel to hold false teeth

tooth-glass1858

tooth-mug1891

1891 Outing Dec. 244/2 Some drank their champagne out of tooth mugs.

1935 Discovery Apr. 114/1 To this communal tooth-mug débris and food particles get transferred.

1979 A. Morice Murder in Outline ix. 77 Why not repair to..our room, where tooth mugs abound, and push the boat out?

tooth ornament n. Architecture a kind of ornament or moulding suggesting a tooth or teeth: = dog-tooth n. 4.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > dog-tooth moulding

dog-tooth1809

tooth ornament1840

1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 2/1 A narrow lancet opening, having the tooth ornament in the hollow surrounding the same.

† tooth-pain n. Obsolete = toothache n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth

toothache1377

teeth-workc1440

tooth-warkc1480

the worma1583

tooth-pain?1593

odontalgy1651

odontalgia1706

tooth-aching1709

tooth-edge1794

teeth-ache1890

?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D4^v The only remedy for the tooth paine, either to haue patience, or to pull them out.

toothpaste n. a paste used for cleaning the teeth; frequently attributive in toothpaste tube; also in figurative phrase to put the toothpaste back in the tube, illustrating the futility of trying to restore a stable state of affairs in the light of subsequent events.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice

tooth-powder1542

dentifrice1558

rubber1558

tooth-blanch1585

tooth-soap1607

tooth-stick1729

toothpaste1832

tooth wash1871

the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > achieve the impossible [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible

to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip1662

to put the toothpaste back in the tube1975

1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 1 607/3 (advt.) Seidlitz powders, chloride of soda, chlorine tooth paste.

1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) at Tooth Edge T[ooth] Paste, Dentifricium.

1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary vi. 62 I get up off the floor, fetch my toothpaste-tube.

1975 Listener 9 Jan. 44/3 Haldeman says to him: ‘John, you ought to think about that, because once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to put it back again.’

1978 F. King Action xxxi. 105 Pinching at an exhausted toothpaste tube.

tooth-plane n. = toothing-plane n. at toothing n. Compounds 2.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > plane with serrated edge

tooth-plane1823

toothing-plane1847

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 246 The Tooth-plane is fitted with a blade or iron, on the steel side of it covered with rakes or small grooves.

tooth-plate n. Dentistry = plate n. 22.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > denture

ratelier1812

plate1845

mineral teeth1851

denture1874

tooth-plate1880

teeth-plate1897

gnasher1919

snapper1924

chopper1937

1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 411 Teeth, real or artificial, or toothplates, become loosened during sleep.

tooth-plugger n. an instrument for filling or stopping decayed teeth (Knight 1884).

tooth-powder n. a powder used for cleaning the teeth, a dentifrice; also attributive, as tooth-powder box.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice

tooth-powder1542

dentifrice1558

rubber1558

tooth-blanch1585

tooth-soap1607

tooth-stick1729

toothpaste1832

tooth wash1871

1542 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 89 Ane stoppell to keip the kingis grace twithe pulder.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 25 As a tooth-powder, nothing can exceed the virtues of charcoal.

† tooth-proof adj. Obsolete having teeth of tried strength or efficiency (cf. proof adj. 1).

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [adjective] > sharp or strong

tooth-proof1654

shark-toothed1794

nimble-toothed1850

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 101 The..more crusty meats fell to Sancho's share, who was tooth-proofe.

tooth-puller n. one who extracts teeth.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentist

tooth-drawer1393

operator1598

dentist1759

dentologist1760

tooth-doctor1767

odontist1819

tooth-puller1839

dental surgeon1840

gum-digger1941

1839 J. Brown Lett. (1907) 46 A good tooth-puller can pull with any key or claw.

tooth-pulling n. extraction of a tooth or teeth.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > extraction of teeth

tooth-drawing1610

tooth-pulling1850

extraction1878

tooth-extraction1898

exodontia1913

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxii. 220 No more than tooth-pulling, or any other pang, eternal.

tooth-pulp n. the soft cellular tissue around which the hard parts of a tooth are developed, and which fills the cavity of the fully formed tooth.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > growth of tissue from which tooth is developed > which fills cavity of fully-formed tooth

pulp1771

tooth-pulp1854

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 265 The primary basis of the tooth, called ‘tooth-pulp’.

tooth-rail n. a tramway rail having teeth or cogs.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > types of rail

bridge rail1759

rack rail1829

light rail1836

saddle rail1837

T rail1837

rack1847

foot rail1856

tooth-rail1862

U-rail1868

strap-rail1874

check-rail1876

cog-rail1884

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 85 Mr. Blenkinsop of Leeds, in 1811, took out a patent for a racked or tooth-rail.

tooth-rake n. †(a) a toothpick (obsolete); (b) a rake with teeth.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for

picker1481

toothpick1488

picktooth1542

tooth-picker1545

tooth-scrape1552

pick1562

tooth-rake1585

tooth-scraper1585

teeth-brush1651

dentiscalp1656

toothbrush1690

quill toothpick1775

quill1785

chew-stick1858

tooth-stick1859

dental silk1907

dental floss1922

floss1936

airbrasive1945

Water Pik1962

water toothpick1965

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > other types of rake

muckrake1366

wording hook1605

swath-rake1652

dew-rake1659

pick1777

twitch rake1798

tooth-rakec1830

pea-rake1867

buck-rake1893

sea-rake1902

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 260/2 Dentiscalpium... Curedent. A tooth scraper, or tooth-rake.

c1830 Pract. Treat. Roads 17 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III Scratching it [the surface], with a tooth-rake regularly all over, as occasion requires.

tooth-rash n. an eruptive disease incident to infants when teething.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > of infants

red gownc1400

red gum1597

white-gum1684

milk-blotch1797

strophulus1798

crusta lactea1806

tooth-rash1818

gum-rash1822

wildfire rash1822

teething rash1899

diaper rash1919

nappy rash1936

1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 321 Strophulus confertus, sometimes called the rank red gum and the tooth rash.

tooth-ribbon n. the lingual ribbon or odontophore of certain molluscs.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc

ungulaa1382

mantlea1475

trunk1661

diaphragm1665

lid1681

operculum1681

ear1688

beard1697

corslet1753

scar1793

opercle1808

pleura1826

pallium1834

byssus1835

cephalic ganglia1835–6

opercule1836

lingual ribbon1839

tube1839

cloak1842

test1842

collar1847

testa1847

rachis1851

uncinus1851

land-shell1853

mantle cavity1853

mesopodium1853

propodium1853

radula1853

malacology1854

gill comb1861

pallial cavity1862

tongue-tootha1877

mesopode1877

odontophore1877

pallial chamber1877

shell-gland1877

rasp1879

protopodium1880

ctenidium1883

osphradium1883

shell-sac1883

tooth-ribbon1883

megalaesthete1885

rachidian1900

scungille1953

tentacle-sheath-

1883 J. G. Wood in Good Words Sept. 603/2 The still more curious ‘tooth-ribbon’ set with its hundreds of hooked toothlets.

tooth-root n. = toothwort n. 3.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plumbaginaceae (leadwort and allies) > [noun]

lead-wort1727

plumbago1731

toothwort1760

tooth-root1819

Armeria1836

1819 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VIII. 169 Among those, that flower in June, the most interesting are..the sarsaparilla, the dentaria or tooth-root,..and the mountain ash.

tooth-sac n. a sac or hollow structure of connective tissue, within which a tooth is developed.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > socket

socket1601

alveolus1657

tooth-sac1890

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Tooth-sac, connective-tissue structure enclosing the dentine germ and enamel-organ in the fœtal development of the teeth.

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tooth-saw n. Dentistry a fine frame-saw for sawing off portions of the teeth (Knight 1877).

tooth-scrape n. Obsolete

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for

picker1481

toothpick1488

picktooth1542

tooth-picker1545

tooth-scrape1552

pick1562

tooth-rake1585

tooth-scraper1585

teeth-brush1651

dentiscalp1656

toothbrush1690

quill toothpick1775

quill1785

chew-stick1858

tooth-stick1859

dental silk1907

dental floss1922

floss1936

airbrasive1945

Water Pik1962

water toothpick1965

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tothscrape instrument, dentiscalpium.

† tooth-scraper n. Obsolete an instrument for scraping the teeth, as a toothpick, or a dentist's instrument.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for

picker1481

toothpick1488

picktooth1542

tooth-picker1545

tooth-scrape1552

pick1562

tooth-rake1585

tooth-scraper1585

teeth-brush1651

dentiscalp1656

toothbrush1690

quill toothpick1775

quill1785

chew-stick1858

tooth-stick1859

dental silk1907

dental floss1922

floss1936

airbrasive1945

Water Pik1962

water toothpick1965

1585Tooth-scraper [see tooth-blanch n.].

1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tooth-scraper.

tooth-set adj. set with teeth, having tooth-like projections.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > other characteristics

bosomed1744

sub-mountain1841

tooth-set1860

drumlinoid1894

swine-backed1908

1860 Artist & Craftsman 125 The toothset edge of those eternal hills.

† tooth-shaken adj. Obsolete having the teeth loosened, as by age.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [adjective] > disorders of teeth

tooth-shaken1549

snaggle-toothed1585

impacted1876

tartrous1904

overerupted1939

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Fij Wrincled, totheshaken..so desyrous yet of life.

1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 185 The Women are pittifully Tooth-shaken.

tooth-soap n. a preparation for cleaning the teeth.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice

tooth-powder1542

dentifrice1558

rubber1558

tooth-blanch1585

tooth-soap1607

tooth-stick1729

toothpaste1832

tooth wash1871

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 516 That excellent powder, for the scowring and cleansing of the teeth called tooth-soape.

tooth-stick n. †(a) a dentifrice in shape of a stick; (b) a stick used for cleaning the teeth.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice

tooth-powder1542

dentifrice1558

rubber1558

tooth-blanch1585

tooth-soap1607

tooth-stick1729

toothpaste1832

tooth wash1871

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for

picker1481

toothpick1488

picktooth1542

tooth-picker1545

tooth-scrape1552

pick1562

tooth-rake1585

tooth-scraper1585

teeth-brush1651

dentiscalp1656

toothbrush1690

quill toothpick1775

quill1785

chew-stick1858

tooth-stick1859

dental silk1907

dental floss1922

floss1936

airbrasive1945

Water Pik1962

water toothpick1965

1729 MS Accts. F. Sitwell in Notes & Queries (1889) 12 Jan. 30/1 Disbursed at London..a silver tooth-stick, 8d.

1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 323 Some of the more civilized have learned..to use a toothstick.

tooth-violet n. (also toothed-violet) = toothwort n. 3.

ΚΠ

1863-79Tooth-Violet [see tooth-cress n.].

tooth-wark n. [compare headwark n.] now dialect toothache (cf. teeth-work in Compounds 2).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth

toothache1377

teeth-workc1440

tooth-warkc1480

the worma1583

tooth-pain?1593

odontalgy1651

odontalgia1706

tooth-aching1709

tooth-edge1794

teeth-ache1890

c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 567 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 418 A mane sa disesyt..of tuth-wark.

tooth wash n. a liquid dentifrice.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice

tooth-powder1542

dentifrice1558

rubber1558

tooth-blanch1585

tooth-soap1607

tooth-stick1729

toothpaste1832

tooth wash1871

1871 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Aug. 284/2 He tendered me a tooth-wash atrocity of his own invention.

1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 716/2 Tooth-wash.

1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos (new ed.) lxxx. 104 Pepitone was wasting toothwash.

tooth-wheel n. a wheel with teeth, a toothed wheel, cog-wheel.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear

cog-wheel1416

main wheel1678

spur-wheel1731

rack wheel1772

spur gear1808

gear1829

gearing1833

spur gearing1844

pitch wheel1854

tooth-wheel1862

gear-wheel1874

maintaining wheel1874

cog1883

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. 2/2 A series of shaftings and tooth-wheels.

tooth-winged adj. having the wings toothed or notched on the outer margin, as certain butterflies.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [adjective] > of or relating to butterflies > having wings toothed or notched

tooth-winged1891

1891 Cent. Dict. Tooth-winged.

tooth-work n. (a) ornamental work resembling teeth; (b) work done with the teeth, i.e. eating (nonce-use).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > geometric

checkingc1440

checkc1450

chequer-work1519

pane?a1549

diaper-work1602

chevron1605

diapery1631

fret1664

tooth-work1681

polygram1696

chequer1779

reticulum1797

Grecque1832

checkery1837

gammadion1848

diaper1851

key pattern1853

diapering1866

Greek fret1872

rangoli1884

geometric1894

Greek key1897

step pattern1908

Mondrian1964

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 133 The ridges also of the rounds are wrought with Tooth-Work.

tooth-wound n. a wound inflicted by the tooth of an animal (cf. teeth-wound in Compounds 2).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > stings or bites

stingc900

stinging1398

biting1527

flea-bite1570

flea-biting1598

bite1736

bug bite1739

snip1767

stangc1800

myiasis1839

snake-bite1839

tooth-wound1899

1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon T[ooth] wounds, wounds inflicted by the teeth of animals which do not owe their gravity to poison, but to the laceration of the tissues.

† tooth-wrest n. Obsolete (see quot.).

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth

tooth-iron1483

pelican1598

tooth-drawer1598

dog1611

snap1611

plychon1688

pullikins1688

screw pelican1688

tooth-wrest1706

pounce1742

key instrument1762

key1774

punch1826

tooth-key1827

tooth-forceps1844

turnkey1855

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tooth-wrest, an Instrument to draw, or pull out Teeth.

C2. Combinations with the plural teeth (most of which have corresponding forms in tooth-: see above).

teeth-ache n. (= toothache n.).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth

toothache1377

teeth-workc1440

tooth-warkc1480

the worma1583

tooth-pain?1593

odontalgy1651

odontalgia1706

tooth-aching1709

tooth-edge1794

teeth-ache1890

1890 P. H. Emerson Wild Life xxii. 96 For teeth-ache we rub the inside wi' rum.

teeth-brush n. (= toothbrush n.).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for

picker1481

toothpick1488

picktooth1542

tooth-picker1545

tooth-scrape1552

pick1562

tooth-rake1585

tooth-scraper1585

teeth-brush1651

dentiscalp1656

toothbrush1690

quill toothpick1775

quill1785

chew-stick1858

tooth-stick1859

dental silk1907

dental floss1922

floss1936

airbrasive1945

Water Pik1962

water toothpick1965

1651 R. Verney in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonw. (1894) (III.) 39 A gift of the new Paris luxury—‘the Teeth Brushes and boxes’.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxvii. 57 Waiting-women, who..clean your teeth-brushes.

teeth-chatter n.

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1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 43/2 He has managed to get up a masterly teeth-chatter.

teeth-chattering n. and adj.

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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > teeth chattering or set on edge

teeth-chattering1796

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool > causing sensation of coldness > causing shivering, etc.

shiveringc1200

shrugging1598

thrillinga1616

teeth-chattering1796

shivery1839

tooth-chattering1887

shiversome1930

1796 S. T. Coleridge Observ. Blossom 1st Feb. 3 This dark..teeth-chattering month.

1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain viii. 109 He nearly aroused the Masai camp with teeth-chattering.

teeth-dints n. (double plural of tooth-dint).

ΚΠ

1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 241 The foul fiend's teeth-dints may be seen.

teeth-edging n. (setting the teeth on edge).

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > [adjective]

foula1398

uglyc1400

unsweet1579

absonant1600

teeth-edging1603

horrisonous1631

horrisonant1656

ungrateful1659

common sounding1676

lacerant1785

cacophonous1797

uncadencedc1838

cacophonic1847

unlistenable1872

uneuphonious1880

ineuphonious1887

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 346 That sharp, harsh, and teethedging noise that Smiths make in filing of brasse.

teeth-filing n. and adj.

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1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 477 The teeth-filing I think undoubtedly does arise from this.

teeth-gnashing n. and adj.

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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective]

reighOE

grima1000

vehementa1492

vehement1548

teeth-grinding1642

sulphury1657

tearing1692

Gothic1695

teeth-gnashinga1711

storming1905

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 90 Teeth-gnashing Envy at the Saints above.

teeth-grinding adj.

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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective]

reighOE

grima1000

vehementa1492

vehement1548

teeth-grinding1642

sulphury1657

tearing1692

Gothic1695

teeth-gnashinga1711

storming1905

1642 A. Ross Mel Heliconium (1643) 175 Teeth-grinding anger, with fierce-glowing eyes.

1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) xxvi. 173 Teeth-grinding teenagers from Muswell Hill picking you up in Cortinas.

teeth-like adj.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > specific shape

mural1774

tooth-like1835

blind1848

teeth-like1884

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 6 Seeing the teeth-like edges which thus catch the fingers.

teeth-mark n.

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1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 202 Teeth-marks were found on..part of their body.

1900 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 362 Their works bear the teethmark of their own age.

teeth-plate n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > denture

ratelier1812

plate1845

mineral teeth1851

denture1874

tooth-plate1880

teeth-plate1897

gnasher1919

snapper1924

chopper1937

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 346 A badly fitting artificial teeth-plate.

teeth-pulps n. (double plural of tooth-pulp).

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1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. (1873) 4 The depth of these bony cells is only sufficient to contain the developing teeth and teeth-pulps.

teeth-ridge n.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > palate > alveolus

teeth-ridge1928

gum-ridge1938

1928 I. C. Ward Phonetics of Eng. xiii. 117 T and d before r are articulated on the teeth, not on the teeth-ridge.

1966 J. Derrick Teaching Eng. to Immigrants iii. 127 The tip or blade (i.e. the very front part) of the tongue is just behind the upper gums (‘the teeth ridge’), i.e. towards the front of the mouth.

teeth-watering n. (cf. phr. the teeth water at Phrases 5g).

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [noun] > secretion of saliva > flowing of saliva in mouth

watering1590

mouth-watering1664

teeth-watering1879

1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 273 That result known as ‘teeth-watering’, which may be described as a reminiscence of taste.

† teeth-wind n. Obsolete (? a wind meeting one in the teeth).

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a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1863) 45 What a sad thing must it then be to lose this teeth-wind for Immanuel's land!

† teeth-work n. Obsolete (= tooth-wark n. at Compounds 1b).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth

toothache1377

teeth-workc1440

tooth-warkc1480

the worma1583

tooth-pain?1593

odontalgy1651

odontalgia1706

tooth-aching1709

tooth-edge1794

teeth-ache1890

c1440 Thornton MS (E.E.T.S.) lf. 176 A charme for þe tethe worke.

teeth-wound n.

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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xv. 164 Five were scarred by direct teeth-wounds of bears.

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tooth-gnasher n. = teeth-gnasher n. at Additions.

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1874 L. Hamel tr. E. Tegnér Frithiof 249 His two he-goats, Tan-gnioster and Tan-grisnir (the tooth-grinder and tooth-gnasher), are drawing the chariot in which he drives.

1931 Life 30 Oct. 739 Confirmed tooth-gnashers will do well to save up their gnashing for a worthier cause.

2001 Guardian 1 Oct. 8/4 It was a tooth-gnasher rather than a nail-biter and there was an inevitability about United's revival.

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teeth-gnasher n. (a) a person who or animal which engages in gnashing or grinding of the teeth; (figurative) a person who is (excessively) agitated or fretful about something; cf. gnasher n. 1; (b) a suspenseful or agonizing event, situation, etc.Frequently with allusion to biblical use of the phrase gnashing of teeth; cf. quot. 1535 at gnashing n.

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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 745 Their [sc. wolves] Epithites which are attributed vnto them among seueral Authors are most cleare demonstrations of their disposition..as..Cattle-hurter, teeth-gnasher, [etc.].

1868 Temple Bar June 402 This proud doctrine does not quite agree, to be sure, with the teeth gnashers, with the craw-thumpers, with the sackcloth-and-ashes people.

1978 Boston Globe 3 Sept. 47/1 The 14th hole plays across water, from one outcropping of lava to another. It's a teeth-gnasher.

1996 Network World 8 July 22/4 The usual wailers and teeth-gnashers are, of course, up in arms over this ‘intrusion’ by Big Brother into your personal space.

2008 Alberni Valley (Brit. Columbia) Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. 13 The Canucks are currently on a one-game winning streak, thanks to Sunday's 3-2 shootout teeth-gnasher over the Chicago Blackhawks.

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a. to suck one's teeth: to make a sound by sucking air and saliva through the teeth, in order to express contempt, disapproval, frustration, etc. Originally U.S. regional; now chiefly Caribbean.

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1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 175 Toby sucked his teeth..and made signs with his shoulders and elbows to the by-standers that he knew Hardy was drunk.

1897 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 7 Oct. 2/8 The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine..or 30 days imprisonment with hard labour. While leaving the dock the accused sucked her teeth.

1916 Living Age 1 July 30/2 Contemptuously he gazes on his fellow workers, sucks his teeth, and then delivers..‘Of all the mouldy perishing pessimists, you blighters take the blinkin' bun.’

1961 I. Khan Jumbie Bird (1985) vi. 64 ‘Hai-hai,’ Pooran, another of the old men, sighed, sucking his teeth, moving his head dejectedly, from left to right.

2013 @__SincerelySino 16 July in twitter.com (accessed 29 Jan. 2021) Mi haffe suck mi teet pon dat last tweet deh suh! chupessss.

b. to kiss one's teeth: to express contempt, disapproval, etc., by sucking air and saliva through the teeth; = to suck one's teeth at Additions a. Now often in kiss my teeth: used to indicate disdain or disgust (sometimes abbreviated kmt, esp. on social media). Originally and chiefly Caribbean.

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1923 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 13 Mar. 13/1 [The constable] told her to put her feet into the disinfectant tub... She kissed her teeth and left.

1986 O. P. Adisa in S. Brown Caribbean New Wave (1990) 2 Richard turns away in vexation; he chups, kissing his teeth: ‘Is me yuh ave mout fah, nuh?’

2013 @jaayfearless 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 29 Jan. 2021) Sometimes ah jus seh ‘cha’ an kiss mi teet. Kmt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	tooth
释义	toothn. Brit. /tuːθ/, U.S. /tuθ/ Inflections: Plural teeth /tiːθ/. Forms: see below, sense 1. Etymology: Old English tóþ, tóð ( < tanþ), Common Germanic and Common Indo-European; Old Frisian tôth, tond, (North Frisian tôth, East Frisian tond); Old Saxon tand* (Middle Low German tand, tan, Low German tan; Middle Dutch tant (d), Dutch tand; Old High German zana, zan (Middle High German zant, zan, German zahn); Old Norse tǫnn ( < tanþuz; Swedish, Danish tand, Norwegian tonn); beside Gothic tunþus; < Old Germanic tanþ- and tunþ- < Indo-European dent, dont, dnt, whence Sanskrit dan, danta, Greek ὀδούς (ὀδόντος), Latin dens (dents), Old Irish dét (dent), Welsh dant, Lithuanian dantìs. The termination agrees with that of present participles, whence Pott conjectured an original ed-ont-, present participle of ed- to eat; i.e. ‘an eater’. Old English tóþ was originally a masculine consonant stem, with dative singular téþ ( < tóþi), plural nominative téþ ( < tóþiz), genitive tóþa, dative tóþum* (in early Middle English toþen). A rare plural tóþas after masculine -o^z stems also occurs. An umlaut plural is seen also in Old Frisian têth, Middle Low German tene, Low German täne, Old High German zeni, Middle High German zene, German zähne. In use the plural is much more frequent than the singular, and in some dialects the latter is sometimes assimilated to it as ‘a teeth’. A double plural teeths was formerly (and is still dialect) used in speaking of a number of persons; e.g. in spite of their teeths, plural of in spite of his teeth: see senses Phrases 1d, Phrases 2. I. The hard, enamel-coated structures in the mouth, and related uses. 1. a. (a) In plural, the hard processes within the mouth, attached (usually in sockets) in a row to each jaw in most vertebrates except birds (but also in some extinct birds), having points, edges, or grinding surfaces, and serving primarily for biting, tearing, or trituration of solid food, and secondarily as weapons of attack or defence, and for other purposes; in singular, each of these individually.singular Old English tóð (dative téð), Old English–Middle English tóþ (Middle English toþþ Orm.), Middle English toþe, Middle English–1500s toth, tothe, tuth; Middle English tooþ ( thothe, toyth, toeth, tuthe), Middle English–1500s toothe; Middle English– tooth. (Also 1500s touthe, Scottish twth, twith, twithe, 1500s–1600s touth, 1500s– Scottish tuith. The shortened vowel in Ormin's toþþ is anomalous: see toth n.)In mammals usually consisting of dentine coated with cement around the root and with enamel in the exposed part; but in some cases horny, chitinous, or osseous. In some animals, also occurring on other parts, as the tongue or pharynx. Also, applied to similar or analogous structures occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal in some invertebrates. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun] teetha900 munpinsc1475 gams1508 peg1598 tusk1632 masticator1681 headrail1767 ivory1783 tombstone1809 dominos1828 dental1837 toothy-peg1840 fang1841 cruncher1859 chomper1884 teg1886 Hampstead Heath1887 pearly1914 gnasher1919 tat1919 pearly whites1935 chopper1937 a900 K. Ælfred Laws c. 19 Selle his agen fore, toð fore teð. c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. v. 38 Ege for ege toð for toþ. a1300 Cursor Mundi 23798 To tell þe soth, Bath me wantes tung and toth [v.r. toþe, toþ]. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4148 Ðog him lestede hise sigte brigt, And euerilc toð bi tale rigt. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. v. 38 It is said, Eiȝe for eiȝe, toth for toth. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6040 A litil beest Of tooþ is not vnfoulest. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 16 Olde wymen that..had not one toeth in her heed. 1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 A Tuthe, dens. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/1 Tothe, dent. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 107^v Pylletoris is good for the tuth ach if the tuth be wasshed with vinegre. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) IV. ii. 11 Meddle not with a hollow Tooth. 1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 127. ⁋11 She has not a Tooth in her Head. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ii. 50 She was lean, and yellow, and long in the tooth. (b) plural Old English tóeþ, Old English–Middle English téþ, téð, (dative Old English tóþum, -an, Middle English -en), (Middle English tieth), Middle English teþe ( teþþe, Scottish tetht), Middle English teeþ, Middle English–1500s teth, tethe, Middle English–1500s teethe, teithe, 1500s teath, ( tithe), Middle English– teeth (Scottish 1500s– teith); also Old English tóþas, 1500s tothes. ΚΠ c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1967 Suaeder, butan toðum. c825 Vesp. Psalter iii. 8 Toeð synfulra ðu forðræstes. c1000 Prose Life Guthlac (1848) v. 34 Heora toþas wæron gelice horses twuxan. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 104 Oft man smeaþ hwæþer teþ bænene beon. c1200 Vices & Virt. 19 Ðar is chiueringe of toðen. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 213 His teð beoð attri as of amad dogge. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 206/228 With kene tieth al fuyrie. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 245 A furgh of lond, in which a-rowe The teth of thaddre he moste sowe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19354 For tene þair tethe [Coll. Phys. teþþe, Fairf. teþ, Gött. teth, Trin. Cambr. teeþ] to gnast. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 25 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 7 Vith his tetht he wald haf refyn sone. 1483 Cath. Angl. 380/2 To drawe oute Tethe, edentare. 1486 Bk. St. Albans f vij A Rage of the teethe. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum (at cited word) Dentosus, full of teath, or hauyng many teath. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. i. sig. Tt.iij/2 [They] whet their teeth for anger. 1598 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Plutarch De Curiositate in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) xv. 3 Whan the think ther handz to slow the ad to ther tithe. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. b iij b/2 These artificialle teethe are sometimes made of Ivorye. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 166 The Carp is..amongst those..fish which..have their teeth in their throat. View more context for this quotation 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. iii There's the woman..that sells paint and patches, iron-bodice, false teeth, and all sorts of things, to the ladies. 1812 Examiner 23 Nov. 752/2 Mrs. G. Gatehouse, in the 101st year of her age;..cut her teeth about two years since. 1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. (1873) vii. 238 Our teeth are dermal structures..developed from the deeper layer or enderon. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 115 A..lingual membrane bearing transverse rows of teeth [in the snail]. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 217 The three muscular jaws..bear at their edges in the medicinal Leech about 80–90 fine chitinoid teeth. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 348 New teeth in succession to old teeth are either formed without limit of numbers, as in most Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, or are restricted to a second set in some Mammalia. b. spec. An elephant's tusk (projecting upper incisor tooth), as a source of ivory. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > parts of > tusk(s) toothc1050 horn1607 fence1727 scrivello1735 fork1767 c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 397/27 Eburneus dens, elpend toþ. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 73/3 The nauye..brouht..teeth of Olyphauntes. 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 70 The olyphantes tothe. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 21 But few [elephants] have Teeth, and they males onely. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 113 The Ground was scattered with Elephants Teeth. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 325 Ivory is everywhere an evil thing... A very common way of collecting a tooth is to kill the person who owns one. c. In expressions referring to speech (now esp. biting or angry speech). ΚΠ c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4385 Þou lexst amidward þi teþ, & þer-fore haue þou maugreþ. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13941 Sal yee na leis here o mi toth. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 68 So, stammering ‘scoundrel’ out of teeth that ground As in a dreadful dream. 1913 N.E.D. at Tooth Mod. Hissing ‘Traitor!’ through his clenched teeth. 2. figurative or in figurative expressions: a. referring to eating, esp. to the sense of taste; hence often = taste, liking (cf. palate n.). See also various phrases in Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > sense of taste smacka1200 smatcha1200 smatching?c1225 swallow1340 swallowing1340 tastec1380 toothc1386 palatea1398 chewinga1400 savouringc1405 gustc1430 tallage1557 relish1605 the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > taste (for something) savour?c1225 toothc1386 palate1435 taste1477 relish1590 gust1609 gusto1647 c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 449 I wol kepe it for youre owene tooth. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 36 My toyth continuly to myrth of songe was chaungyd. 1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 May in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxvi. 103 For all theis Things make you the meter for Gods tothe. 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 8 Will you haue all for yon owne tothe? 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. G3 The Smith and the diuel hath a drie tooth in his head. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. xi. 432 A wanton tooth is the harbinger to luxurious wantonnesse. 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 118 Well did Herodias know how to fit the tooth of her Paramour. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 6 And keep the best o' th' meat (forsooth) For your own Worships dainty tooth! 1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans ix. 150 He..had a great Tooth for the Dey-ship. 1851 Beck's Florist Sept. 213 What a tooth for fruit has a monkey! b. (a) referring to biting or gnawing; hence denoting a hurtful, hostile, destructive, or devouring agency or quality. See also various phrases in III. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person > thing thornc1230 plaguea1382 foea1393 evila1400 flaw1481 detriment?1504 tooth1546 fang1555 decay1563 bane1577 dagger1600 scourge1603 cursea1616 blighter1821 bacillus1883 1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) A ij It is impossible to auoide the teethe of malicious enuy. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 12 It deserues..A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time. View more context for this quotation a1659 F. Osborne Ess. ii, in Wks. (1673) 560 Out of fear of the Iron-teeth of the Law. 1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 6 Jealousy with rankling Tooth. a1765 E. Young Compl. Wks. (1854) II. 72 Records that defy the tooth of time. 1816 Ld. Byron Prisoner of Chillon ii That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away. 1874 D. Gray Poet. Wks. 89 'Tis April, yet the wind retains its tooth. (b) plural denoting the ability to compel or enforce, esp. by the exaction of penalties, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > agency or means of > ability of tooth1925 1925 Country Gentleman 25 July 15/1 How many teeth can you put in a grower's contract of membership with a cooperative marketing association? 1931 Week-End Rev. 14 Mar. 380/1 It is even more urgent to take steps which will lead to the success of the Disarmament Conference next February than to ‘give teeth’ to the Paris Peace Pact. 1935 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 27 May 13/3 (heading) Coal control bill with teeth studied. 1949 Economist 16 Apr. 694/2 It is well that President Truman should have made quite clear, not only that the Atlantic Pact is meant to have teeth in it, but also what sort of teeth. 1963 Listener 7 Mar. 432/3 It needed guts to fight a battle against an Establishment with teeth. 1964 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 24 (heading) ‘Teeth’ put in scheme for fair coal sales. 1976 Howard Jrnl. 15 i. 29 The Magistrates' Association..asked for an order stronger than a care order to show that ‘in the last resort the law has teeth’. (c) spec., denoting the combatant personnel of an armed service or military unit. Cf. tail n.¹ 4c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > combatant personnel tooth1946 1946 Hansard Commons 30 Oct. 690 Our job must be to secure an efficient fighting force in which the tail is kept as short as possible, and the teeth as long and as keen as possible. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vii. 159 As ‘Teeth’ troops (to use a phrase which was then [sc. in 1942] both new and picturesque, but has long since become a cliché) there was little to equal them; but they lacked a ‘Tail’—those ancillaries which in modern war virtually wag the dog. 1962 Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 12/2 There is, indeed, room for a ‘teeth’ role for certain units [of the Territorial Army]. 1967 M. Ayub Khan Friends not Masters iv. 45 These changes gave the infantry more teeth and less tail. 1968 Listener 25 July 99/3 As for recruiting, the ‘teeth arms’ of the three Services are likely to go on attracting young men of high quality. 1977 J. Haines Politics of Power ii. 24 He knew..that the Labour Government's great ‘defence review’ had left a vast area of spending—administrative ‘tail’ as opposed to front-line ‘teeth’—almost untouched and unharmed. II. A projecting part or point. 3. transferred. A projecting part or point resembling an animal's tooth; esp. one of a row or series of such. a. As an artificial structure, in an implement, machine, etc.; e.g. one of the pointed projections of a comb, saw, file, rake, harrow, fork, etc.; a prong, tine; one of the series of projections on the edge of a wheel, pinion, etc., which engage with corresponding ones on another; a cog. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > tooth or prong tinea700 tooth?1523 prong1697 sprong1756 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence > small tinea700 bristlea1300 denticlec1400 prickle?c1425 tooth?1523 serra1800 spikelet1851 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > tooth coga1250 tooth?1523 sprocket1655 staff1659 leaf1675 wrong1688 round1731 wrist1864 whelp1875 wrist-pin1875 pinion leaf1881 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiii^v If the rake be made of grene wode..the teth wyll fall out whan he hath moost nede to them. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 105^v [These] doo more fyll the teeth of the Sawe. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Pua The tooth of a combe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Allochons The teeth, or toothing, of a wheele, in a clocke, &c. 1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 169 But iron is never..brighter than when it hath been under the sharp teeth of the file. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 189 A great Iron Wheel, having Teeth on its edge. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VIII. 48 The teeth, or wooden pins [of a harrow] must be made long. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xv. 412 Anchors were made of iron, and furnished with teeth,..fastening to the bottom of the sea. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Mechanics ii. vii. 27 The cogs on the surface of the wheel are generally called teeth, and those on the surface of the axle are called leaves. 1966 B. Malamud Fixer vii. iii. 239 He combed his hair and beard until the teeth of the comb fell out. b. As a natural structure, in animals, plants, etc.; e.g. the odontoid process of the axis vertebra; a projecting point in the upper mandible of the bill in certain birds (cf. dentiroster n.); each of a row of small projections on the edge of one valve of the shell in some bivalve molluscs; each of the pointed processes on the margin of leaves or other parts in many plants (cf. dentate adj.), or of those forming the peristome of the capsule in mosses; also, generally, a projecting point of rock, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > tooth-like part of vertebra tooth1701 the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > tooth-like part tooth1796 toothlet1801 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > upper or lower beak > part or process of upper beak nail1769 tooth1847 prokinesis1962 rhynchokinesis1963 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > parts of beard1649 hinge1704 cardo1725 palpus1803 disc1810 ligament1816 palp1835 tooth1847 hinge-tooth1851 beak1854 curtain1854 talon1854 resilium1895 hinge-ligament1909 1701 tr. D. Tauvry New Rational Anat. ii. xvi. 268 This second Vertebra has an Apophysis call'd the Tooth..The Head and the first vertebra..are qualified to turn upon that Axis. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 63 A small rugged Shell... Its Navel small with a Tooth or Knag in the Mouth. a1713 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica (1714) 249/1 Axis..is a Name which rather befits the former Vertebra, whose Tooth resembles an Axle. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 253 Cal[yx]. Cup 1 leaf, concave, but expanding, with 5 teeth, permanent. 1815 Encycl. Brit. III. 289 Axis..the second vertebra of the neck; it hath a tooth which goes into the first vertebra and this tooth is by some called the axis. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. iv. §361 Its [the upper mandible of a bird of prey] edge is notched, so as to form a kind of projecting tooth on either side. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. xviii. §932 This hinge [in the shell of a bivalve mollusc] is sometimes formed..by a number of little projections or teeth, which fit into corresponding hollows in the opposite valve. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 88 (Toad-flax)..capsule swollen,..opening by valves or teeth. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) v. 125 Great rocky teeth, striking up through their icy covering, like the edge of a saw. 1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 210 The long stiff leaves, edged with sharp teeth. c. An accidental jag or uneven projection at the edge of something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence > uneven or accidental snag1586 snub1590 tooth1612 rag1683 tit1884 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 29 You may make your pen of the best of the quil, & where you see the cleft to be the cleanest, & without teeth. d. A rough surface on paper, canvas, etc., such as to enable pencil-marks, colours, etc. to adhere; a roughness made by a toothing-plane on surfaces to be glued together, to promote adhesion of the glue. (Only in singular) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness > rough surface grain1390 tooth1811 frosting1864 rasp1869 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 525 The tooth or grain of the paper catching the crayons in dots. 1884 Cent. Mag. 29 205/2 The substance worked upon being commonly rough paper, to the ‘tooth’ or burr of which the color partially adheres. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 232 [It] is roughened by rubbing it with coarse glass paper. This gives it a kind of ‘tooth’. 1906 R. C. Bayley Compl. Photographer 382 A polished sheet of copper..has its surface treated in some way to give it a very fine grain or tooth... Fine bitumen dust is generally employed. e. plural. The lower zone of facets in a rose-diamond. ΚΠ 1877 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. f. plural. figurative. A ship's guns. Nautical slang. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively armament1668 metal1751 tooth1806 1806 J. Davis Post-Captain iv. 19 ‘She looks, sir, like a whacking frigate.’ ‘Can you see her teeth?’ ‘Yes, sir; she has a very heavy tire of teeth.’ 1810 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. (1820) III. 291 The ship had no teeth, as the sailors say, when they mean great guns. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. vii. 101 They were..large schooners..showing a very good set of teeth. 1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah ii There's at least three rows of teeth beneath that mass of spars. Phrases P1. in the teeth, in one's teeth. a. In direct (local) opposition or attack; in the teeth of, in direct opposition to, so as to face or confront, straight against. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > opposite position > opposite [phrase] in the teeth1297 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance to one's face, teethc1000 in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230 in the teeth1297 maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325 maugre his nosec1325 despitec1380 in (the) maugre (of)c1450 in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537 in the teeth of1792 malgré lui1796 the world > space > relative position > opposite position > opposite [preposition] > facing in the teeth of1833 aface of1859 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls.) 8404 Our lord..þe smoke þat hii made..Riȝt in hor owe teþ bigan hom euene sende. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades viii. 138 A Hector, who no lesse desires to meete them in the teeth. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 18 The Wind is right in our teeth. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War iii. x, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 837 Others..met the enemy in the teeth. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 160 They..had run into the teeth of a heavy barge full of armed men. 1892 E. Lawless Grania II. 7 He..had run across in the teeth of the rising gale. b. in the teeth of, in direct and manifest opposition to, in defiance of, in spite of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance to one's face, teethc1000 in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230 in the teeth1297 maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325 maugre his nosec1325 despitec1380 in (the) maugre (of)c1450 in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537 in the teeth of1792 malgré lui1796 1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 160 State necessity will be urged in the teeth of policy, humanity, and justice. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 280 In no civil case would a counsel have been permitted to plead his client's case in the teeth of the law. 1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) x. 128 Why do you continue to live here, in the teeth of these repeated warnings? 1885 Law Times 13 June 113/1 A judge has no right to enter judgment in the teeth of the finding of a jury. c. in the teeth of, in the presence of, in the face of; usually implying hostility or danger; threateningly confronted by. ΚΠ 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 512 They were in fact in the very teeth of starvation. 1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxvii. 381 His post was in the teeth of danger. 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps i The Carrier scarcely knew what to do in the teeth of so urgent a message. d. to cast (one) in the teeth with (something), later to cast (a thing) in one's teeth (see cast v. 65), †to hit (one) in the teeth with (obsolete), to throw in (one's) teeth: to reproach, upbraid, or censure with; to bring up in reproach against. (In quot. 1596 at Phrases 2 to throw in (one's) teeth = to send or direct defiantly against: cf. Phrases 1b, Phrases 3b.) Also in similar phrases expressing reproachful or defiant utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > reproach with upbraida1250 undernimc1320 to lay to one's credit, reproachc1515 to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526 to twit (a person) in the teeth1530 to hit (one) in the teeth with1535 to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551 to fling (anything) in one's teeth1587 to throw (thrust, fling, (etc.)) (something) in a person's face1597 to tit (a person) in the teeth1622 nose1625 exprobrate1630 puta1663 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xxvii. 44 The murtherers also that were crucified with him, cast the same in his tethe. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. b iv^v Take it not that I hit you here in the teeths with oure good turnes. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 147 Some..will not sticke to hit him in the teeth, that he was the sonne of [etc.]. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 42 To armes, for I haue throwne A braue defiance in king Henries teeth. View more context for this quotation 1614 J. Day Dyall Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3^v Caius of Cambridge did twit vs in the teeth with some of our Founders here in Oxford that had beene themselues Cambridge Men. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 53 He giueth to all liberally, and hitteth no man in the teeth. 1640 Sir W. Boswell in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Misc. Lett. 27 The main things that they hit in our teeth are, our Bishops to be called Lords. 1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables xiii. 441 This neglect of family-devotions is often thrown in our teeth. a1821 J. Keats Otho iv. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 181 In thy teeth I give thee back the lie! 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 441/2 Perpetually throwing in the teeth of the second wife the unrivalled virtues..of the first. P2. in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teeth: notwithstanding one's opposition or resistance; in spite of one, in defiance of one. Now rare exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance to one's face, teethc1000 in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230 in the teeth1297 maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325 maugre his nosec1325 despitec1380 in (the) maugre (of)c1450 in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537 in the teeth of1792 malgré lui1796 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding though-whetherc897 nathelesseOE though971 whetherOE yetOE neverlOE what for-thyc1175 nethelessa1200 never the latterc1225 algatec1230 in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230 nought for thatc1275 (all) for noughtc1325 (in) spite of one's nosec1325 alway1340 thoughless1340 ne'er the later (also latter)a1382 ne'er the lessa1382 neverlatera1382 neverthelessa1382 ne for-thia1400 neverlessa1400 not-againstandinga1400 nauthelessc1400 nouthelessc1400 algatesc1405 noughtwithstanding1422 netherless?a1425 notwithstanding1425 nethertheless1440 not gainstandingc1440 not the lessa1450 alwaysa1470 howbeit1470 never þe quedera1475 nought the lessc1480 what reck?a1513 nonetheless1533 howsomever1562 after all1590 in spite of spite1592 meantime1594 notwithstand1596 withal1596 in the meanwhile1597 meanwhile1597 howsoever1601 in (one's) spite?1615 however1623 in the meantime1631 non obstante1641 at the same time1679 with a non-obstante to1679 stilla1699 the same1782 all the same1803 quand même1825 still and all1829 anyhow1867 anyway1876 still and ona1894 all the samey1897 just the same1901 but1939 c1230 Hali Meid. 47 He ȝarkeð þe unþonc hise teð þe blisse & te crune of cristes icorene. a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 5840 He..maugre þe teeþ of hem alle Sette his rigge to þe walle. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 86 He putte theym to flight, magre their teeth. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Eii A greate man kepeth certaine landes of hyrs from hyr, & wilbe hyr tenaunte in the spite of hyr tethe. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Pvi Spyte of there tethes wrestynge owt of theire handes the sure & vndowted victory. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 438 Compelling him..to be liberall in despite of his teeth. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 115/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Which perforce and maugre of his teeth compelled him to retire with shame. 1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. v. xv. 186 Constrained them spite of their teeths to depart the towne. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iv. ix. 103 Noble men which maugre thy teeth mount to authoritie. 1689 E. Hickeringill Ceremony-monger iii, in Wks. (1716) II. 482 Let the People go whistle, they are their Feeders and Pastors in Spight of their Teeths. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 32 [We] will go on with Law-suit in spite of John Bull's Teeth. 1835 Court Mag. 6 74/2 Pleasing herself before his very eyes, in spite of his teeth. P3. to the teeth. a. So as to be completely equipped; very fully or completely: in armed to the teeth; so entrenched up to their teeth. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] weaponedc1000 armedc1300 well-armedc1300 well-weaponeda1325 armed to the teethc1380 well-steeledc1390 warlikec1420 anarm1426 boden1429 well-harnesseda1450 geared1488 well-geared1488 well-boden1496 warly1508 enarmedc1540 burled1616 undisarmed1649 of (good) force1697 tooled up1959 weaponized1973 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2707 Þey wern y-armed in-to þe teþ & araid wel for þe fiȝt. 14.. Lybeaus Disc. 460 All yarmed to the teth. 1708 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 328 The French..are intrench't up to their teeth. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. xi. 43 Everybody in Spain travels armed to the teeth. b. to (one's) teeth, to the teeth of: intensive of ‘to one's face’; directly and openly; defiantly; also, so as directly to face, confront, or oppose. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > openly [phrase] not to (or at) laina1375 with (an) open facea1425 to (one's) teeth1542 to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 319 Cicero mocked hir to the harde teeth with sembleyng that he graunted hir saiyng [etc.]. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Liv ^v Though I praise you to your teeth. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 55 That I liue and tell him to his teeth Thus didst thou. View more context for this quotation 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 79 Which..plainly gives them the lye unto their Teeths. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius i. 4 Now Rome's last Stake of Liberty is set, And must be pusht for to the Teeth of Fortune. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 189 The Foot.. coming close up to the Teeth of one another.. fought with great Resolution. c. So as to be utterly committed; up to the teeth: heavily involved or absorbed. ΚΠ 1934 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 June (1938) 805 At the moment we are all up to the teeth in 5 more target boats. 1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. a11/6 A young farmer who is starting out and he's mortgaged to the teeth at the bank would not look at it the same way. d. fed (up) to the (back) teeth: see fed to the (back) teeth at fed adj. 3. P4. a. tooth and nail (originally with tooth and nail) adverbial phr.: literal with the use of one's teeth and nails as weapons; by biting and scratching: almost always figurative, in the way of vigorous attack, defence, or action generally; vigorously, fiercely, with one's utmost efforts, with all one's might. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour mainc1400 vigorous1524 tooth and naila1535 robust1652 robustic1652 strenuous1671 lusty1672 vigorous1697 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [phrase] > with all one's might (at, by, with) all one's mightOE by (also by one's) powerc1300 with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 at (also at all, after) one's power1384 upon one's powerc1400 to (the best of, the uttermost of, the extent of) one's power?a1425 tooth and naila1535 with tooth and naila1535 with both hands1549 with teeth and alla1600 horse and footc1600 with all one's force1677 for all it's worth1864 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxii. sig. T.ii They would fayne kepe them as long as euer they mighte, euen with tooth and nayle. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 16 Contending with tuith and naill (as in the prouerb). 1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 46^v To perswade them tooth and naile, not to cleaue vnto that doctrine. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 51 M. Harding fighteth for it tooth and nail. 1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 118 He will helpe it forward with tooth and naile. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xv. xi, in Wks. 431 Salome, and her Faction were Tooth and Nail for Dispatching her out of Hand. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 156 She flew in her Face Tooth and Nail. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 26 July (1941) 81 To-morrow I resume the Chronicles, tooth and nail. 1892 T. H. Huxley Let. 26 May in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. xviii. 312 I am ready to oppose any such project tooth and nail. attributive.1872 B. Jerrold London xiv. 116 Honourable instinct making a tooth-and-nail fight against adverse circumstances.1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 509/1 The tooth-and-nail fight to which they and their children were condemned. †b. So with teeth and all. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [phrase] > with all one's might (at, by, with) all one's mightOE by (also by one's) powerc1300 with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 at (also at all, after) one's power1384 upon one's powerc1400 to (the best of, the uttermost of, the extent of) one's power?a1425 tooth and naila1535 with tooth and naila1535 with both hands1549 with teeth and alla1600 horse and footc1600 with all one's force1677 for all it's worth1864 a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie viii. vi. §2 Even with teeth and all they that favour the papal throne must hold the contrary. P5. †a. to have the teeth cold, to have cold at the teeth: to suffer hunger, go hungry (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > be starving starvelOE enfaimlec1475 to have cold at the teeth1484 to have the teeth cold1484 famish1535 to famish away1535 famine1553 starve1578 clem1600 affamish1622 a. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. xv Suche weren fayre gownes and fayr gyrdels of gold that haue theyr teeth cold at home. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. xvii He that werketh not..shal haue ofte at his teeth grete cold. b. from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s) (also simply from one's teeth, and elliptical. teeth outward(s)): formally or feignedly, in profession but not in reality (opposed to from the heart). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb] askancesc1450 hollowlya1547 from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s)1561 teeth outward(s)1561 unsincerelya1575 hollow1607 insincerely1625 fictly1677 with (one's) tongue in (one's) cheek1842 phonily1936 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. ii. f. 3 That is but a laughter from the teeth forward, because inwardly the worme of conscience gnaweth them much more sharpely than al whose searyng yrons. 1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. G3 Manye of them like vs but from the teeth outward. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 267 They met..and from the teeth forwarde departed good friends againe. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. lxxxviii. 459 They love not [one another], or but teeth outward. 1815 J. Hogg Let. 28 Feb. in J. G. Lockhart Life Sir W. Scott (1853) viii. 348 To be friends from the teeth forwards is common enough. †c. to hide one's teeth: figurative to conceal malice or hostile intention under a show of friendliness (opposed to to show one's teeth) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > be hypocritical [verb (intransitive)] Pharisee1598 hypocrise1680 to hide one's teetha1713 hypocrify1716 hypocritizea1734 Chadbandize1913 c. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 230 The Goaler..hid his Teeth,..putting on a shew of Kindness. †d. to love the tooth: to be fond of eating, to be an epicure (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > be epicure [verb (intransitive)] epicurize1600 to love the tooth1610 to epicure it1628 to eat well1677 opsophagize1854 d. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 543 Meates..greatly sought for by these that love the tooth so well. e. to set one's teeth: to press or clench one's teeth firmly together from indignation, or fixed resolution as in facing danger, opposition, or difficulty; hence figurative or allusively; see also set v.¹ 95. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 15 Now set the Teeth, and stretch the Nosthrill wide. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode Epil. You..set your teeth when each design fell short. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. ix. 230 ‘If this should prove truth,’ said the Duke, setting his teeth, and pressing his heel against the ground. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xxxvii. 37 She set her teeth when she thought of Arthur: she cursed him. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 350 Her teeth were set hard, and her brow was knit. f. to show one's teeth: literal to uncover the teeth by withdrawing the lips from them, esp. as a beast in readiness for biting or attack; usually figurative to show hostility or malice, to behave in a threatening way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > be hostile [verb (intransitive)] > show hostility to show one's teeth1615 aggress1951 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > behave threateningly to show one's teeth1615 1615 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 361 It were to no purpose to show our teeth unless we could bite. 1710 O. Sansom Acct. Life 330 He somewhat appeared at the Sessions at Wantage; shewing his Teeth in what he could; and thereby discovering what lodged in his Heart against us. 1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire I 2 When the Law shews her teeth, but dares not Bite. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. i. 5 Such Patriotism as snarls dangerously, and shows teeth. g. the teeth water: a variant of the mouth waters: see mouth n. 2c (? obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [verb (intransitive)] > secrete saliva > flow in mouth to make a person's mouth watera1586 the teeth water1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xxx. 269 At it their teeth water, that most goodly and beautifull cittie will they either destroy, or be LL. thereof themselves. 1693 Eng.–Lat. Dict. in A. Littleton Linguæ Romanæ dictionarium Tooth... It makes my teeth water. Salivam mihi movet. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle v. i. 57 O my litlte [sic] Green Gooseberry, my Teeth waters at ye. 1879 [see teeth-watering n. at Compounds 2]. h. to get one's teeth into: to become engrossed in; to come to grips with, to begin serious work on. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin an action or fall to doing something > resolutely or vigorously to sit in1736 strap1823 to get down1826 tackle1841 to buckle down (to)1865 to bite on1904 to wade into1904 to get stuck into1910 to get one's teeth into1935 to sink one's teeth into1935 to get stuck in1938 to get to grips with1947 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night i. 23 If one could work here steadily..getting one's teeth into something dull and durable. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vi. 140 American eagerness to get their teeth into the enemy. 1983 G. Mitchell Cold, Lone, & Still x. 111 He's not the man to let go while he's got his teeth into a suspect. i. For other phrases see the words involved, asto take the bit in one's teeth (bit n.¹ Phrases 1), to carry a bone in the teeth (bone n.¹ Phrases 1h), colt's tooth (colt n.¹ 8), to cut one's teeth (cut v. 39), to set the teeth on edge (edge n. 4), to grind one's teeth (grind v.¹ 10), to have the run of one's teeth (run n.² Phrases 5a), long in the tooth (long adj.¹ and n.¹ Phrases 3h), by or with the skin of one's teeth (skin n. Phrases 7), a sweet tooth (sweet adj.). For to lie in one's teeth, see 1c. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. Also many others of obvious meaning. (a) tooth-dint n. ΚΠ 1877 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy III. viii. 419 Day seems struggling into shape beneath his mask of rock, and Twilight shows everywhere the tooth-dint of the chisel. tooth-dye n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the teeth tooth-stainer1762 tooth-dye1884 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 312/1 Adding to crude or branch lacquer, about 5 per cent. of the tooth dye (haguro) used by women. tooth-extraction n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > extraction of teeth tooth-drawing1610 tooth-pulling1850 extraction1878 tooth-extraction1898 exodontia1913 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. iv. 89 In such patients..tooth extraction..may prove a dangerous matter. tooth-point n. tooth-stainer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > cosmetics for the teeth tooth-stainer1762 tooth-dye1884 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 7 Your nose-borers, feet-swathers, tooth-stainers, eye brow pluckers. tooth-stump n. ΚΠ 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3533 Improved tooth-stump instrument. (b) tooth-bred adj. ΚΠ 1642 A. Ross Mel Heliconium (1643) 68 And then the Dragon, he did wound And all his toothbread sonnes confound. tooth-chattering adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > having teeth chattering tooth-chattering1887 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool > causing sensation of coldness > causing shivering, etc. shiveringc1200 shrugging1598 thrillinga1616 teeth-chattering1796 shivery1839 tooth-chattering1887 shiversome1930 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain 73 A tooth-chattering cook. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iii. 80 Alone..in this tooth-chattering desert. tooth-extracting adj. tooth-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > specific shape mural1774 tooth-like1835 blind1848 teeth-like1884 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 312/1 A tooth-like process on either side [of the bill]. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 105 The toothlike aching ruin of the body. tooth-setting adj. ΚΠ 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 140 Tooth-drawers and Tooth-setting Chyrurgions. tooth-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [adjective] > tooth-shaped dentiformed1578 dentiform1694 tooth-shaped1837 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 292 Peristomium..consists of a circular and double row of fine and tooth-shaped substances. tooth-tempting adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective] likingeOE goodOE lickerousc1275 deliciousa1325 daintya1382 dainteousc1386 daintiful1393 delicatea1398 merrya1398 savourlyc1400 liciousc1420 savourousa1425 daintethc1430 lustyc1430 feelsomea1450 nuttya1450 seasonablea1475 delicativec1475 unctuous1495 well-tasteda1500 daintive1526 savoury1533 exquisite1561 spicy1562 well-relished?1575 finger-licking1584 toothsome1584 taste-pleasinga1586 daint1590 relishsome1593 lickerish1595 tastesome1598 friand1599 tooth-tempting1603 relishing1605 well-relishing1608 neat1609 hungry1611 palate-pleasing1611 tasteful1611 palatea1617 tastya1617 palatable1619 toothful1622 sipid1623 unsoured1626 famelic1631 tasteablea1641 piquant1645 sapid1646 saporousa1670 slape1671 palativea1682 flavorous1697 nice1709 well-flavoured1717 gusty1721 flavoury1727 fine-palated1735 unrepulsive1787 degustatory1824 zesty1826 peckish1845 mouth-watering1847 flavoursome1853 unreasty1853 unrancida1855 relishy1864 toothy1864 flavoured1867 tasty-looking1867 hungrifying1886 velvety1888 snappy1892 zippy1911 savoursome1922 delish1953 the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > promoting appetite tooth-tempting1603 piquant1645 appetizing1653 moreish1691 peckish1845 mouth-watering1847 appetitive1864 tasty-looking1867 hungrifying1886 zippy1911 1603 W. Fowldes Strange Battell Frogs & Mise sig. D No tooth-tempting fare. b. See also toothbrush n., toothpick n., tooth-shell n., etc. tooth-axe n. ‘a stone-cutters' axe the edges of which are divided into blunt teeth’ ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.). tooth-back n. a moth of the family Notodontidæ, or its larva, which has a tooth-like prominence on the back. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Notodontidae > member of (tooth-back) tooth-back1872 1872 J. G. Wood Insects at Home 470 A family of Moths called Notodontidæ, or Tooth-backs. tooth-backed adj. tooth-bearer n. = odontophore n. † tooth-blanch n. Obsolete a substance for whitening the teeth, a dentifrice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice tooth-powder1542 dentifrice1558 rubber1558 tooth-blanch1585 tooth-soap1607 tooth-stick1729 toothpaste1832 tooth wash1871 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 260/2 Dentifricium,..tooth powder: tooth sope, or tooth blanch. tooth-block n. a block forming part of a machine for moulding in sand the iron teeth of a gear-wheel. tooth-bone n. (a) = dentine n.; (b) the bony substance or ‘cement’ of the teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > dentine ivory1828 dentine1845 osteodentine1849 vitro-dentine1849 tooth-ivory1851 plicidentine1852 tooth-bone1853 1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) (at cited word) The ivory of the tooth or Dentine,..proper tooth substance, bone of the tooth, osseous substance of tooth, tooth bone. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 535 The portion of the case that forms the root or roots is covered by ‘crusta petrosa’, or tooth bone. tooth-chisel n. a chisel with a toothed or serrated cutting edge, used by stone-masons. Categories » tooth-cleaner n. a machine for dressing and finishing the teeth of cog-wheels (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884). tooth-comb n. (a) a small-tooth comb; usually in figurative use; also attributive and as v. transitive, to investigate minutely; cf. fine-tooth adj.; (b) Zoology a group of procumbent lower front teeth found in tree shrews and lemurs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Scandentia (tree-shrews) > [noun] > parts of tooth-comb1893 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] > instrument of fine-tooth comb1852 tooth-comb1893 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [adjective] > of scrutiny: close, rigorous narroweOE searching1648 close1662 subsoil1882 tooth-comb1893 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > member of family Lemuridae > parts of tooth-comb1893 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > selecting from a number or for a purpose > instrument of fine selection tooth-comb1893 1893 Westm. Gaz. 24 Apr. 4/3 The force was a mere toothcomb in the face of the rioters. 1902 Sat. Rev. 1 Nov. 556/1 The rake with which Mr. Nield gathers together his authors is a very tooth-comb. 1918 Daily Chron. 25 Jan. 3/7 The Army behind the front is being tooth-combed of all men fit for the fighting line. 1924 Glasgow Herald 28 Aug. 4/2 She was a strong woman, well accustomed to ‘toothcomb’ her husband's MS. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 749/3 Whatever the ‘tooth-combs’ of Dr. Hotson's fellow-scholars may leave of it, he must be congratulated on his discovery. 1958 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Apr. 68/4 The three officers start their own toothcomb check of their huge ship. 1962 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 20 128/1 The closely spaced incisors [of lemurs] seem to scrape the fur rather than comb it. The use of the term ‘tooth comb’ may be, therefore, objectionable. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Aug. 946/1 A novel which has been picked over with toothcombs, in search of clues to ‘The Mystery’. 1977 Listener 7 Apr. 442/1 Decides whether the bid is contentious enough to be toothcombed by the mergers panel. 1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons i. xi. 110 The four men and one woman trained after a toothcomb selection. 1981 Times 16 Feb. 14/4 Tooth combs are found today in tree shrews..as well as in the lemurs and lorises. tooth-coralline n. = sertularia n. ΚΠ 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man iv. 73 The Sertulariæ or tooth-corallines. tooth-cress n. = toothwort n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > toothwort or pepperwort dentarie1578 coralwort1597 toothed violet1597 toothwort1668 dentaria1819 crinkleroot1847 pepperwort1854 tooth-cress1863 1863–79 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Tooth-cress, or Tooth-Violet,..Dentaria bulbifera. tooth-doctor n. a dentist. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentist tooth-drawer1393 operator1598 dentist1759 dentologist1760 tooth-doctor1767 odontist1819 tooth-puller1839 dental surgeon1840 gum-digger1941 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 300 'Tis the celebrated tooth-doctor—he takes out your old teeth without any pain. tooth-edge n. the sensation of having the teeth ‘set on edge’ (see edge n. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth toothache1377 teeth-workc1440 tooth-warkc1480 the worma1583 tooth-pain?1593 odontalgy1651 odontalgia1706 tooth-aching1709 tooth-edge1794 teeth-ache1890 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. iii. 22 The disagreeable sensation called the tooth-edge. tooth fairy n. a fairy believed by children to take away milk teeth and leave a small sum of money; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > imaginary persons or creatures man in the moon1596 Briarean1598 phantasim1598 mooncalf1638 splacknuck1726 Idomenian1764 little green man1802 ring-tailed roarer1828 Belsnickel1830 ice worm1830 catawampus1843 whangdoodle1852 Prince Charming1855 boojum1876 snark1879 Easter rabbit1881 Easter bunny1900 death moth1910 Moomin1950 energy vampire1967 tooth fairy1977 1977 Age (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 15/5 Who do you suppose pays for the $50 billion difference? The tooth fairy? Hardly. You do. 1977 Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 45/4 Anyone who thinks they acted alone must also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. 1978 J. Hyams Pool xi. 163 Alan had ceased to believe in miracles at about the same age he stopped believing in the Tooth Fairy. tooth-fern n. a rendering of Odontopteris, a genus of fossil ferns. ΚΠ 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 37 The Odontopteris, or tooth-fern. tooth-fever n. fever accompanying teething. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1788 C. Smith Emmeline IV. xi. 250 The child was very ill once with a tooth fever. tooth-flower n. a name for Dentella repens, a small creeping herb found in Australia, Polynesia, etc., having a tooth-like process on each petal of the flower. ΚΠ 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Tooth-flower, Australian, Dentella repens. tooth-forceps n. a forceps used by a dentist for extracting teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth tooth-iron1483 pelican1598 tooth-drawer1598 dog1611 snap1611 plychon1688 pullikins1688 screw pelican1688 tooth-wrest1706 pounce1742 key instrument1762 key1774 punch1826 tooth-key1827 tooth-forceps1844 turnkey1855 1844 W. Dufton Nature & Treatm. Deafness 91 A pair of tooth-forceps was..employed. tooth-germ n. the ‘germ’ or growth of tissue from which a tooth is developed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > growth of tissue from which tooth is developed tooth-germ1841 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 460/2 The number of successive tooth-germs..behind the..functional teeth. tooth-glass n. (a) (see quot. 1858); (b) a glass used to hold false teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > vessel to hold false teeth tooth-glass1858 tooth-mug1891 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > lip-glass or tooth-glass wash-tumbler1774 lip-glass1825 tooth-glass1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 384/2 Tooth-glass, a toilet water-glass for washing the mouth. 1915 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 411 That plate of the four lower ones in the blue tooth-glass. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor v. iii. 286 The toothglasses were swathed in plastic. † tooth-iron n. Obsolete ? an instrument for extracting teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth tooth-iron1483 pelican1598 tooth-drawer1598 dog1611 snap1611 plychon1688 pullikins1688 screw pelican1688 tooth-wrest1706 pounce1742 key instrument1762 key1774 punch1826 tooth-key1827 tooth-forceps1844 turnkey1855 1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 A Tuthe yren, dentaria. tooth-ivory n. = dentine n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > dentine ivory1828 dentine1845 osteodentine1849 vitro-dentine1849 tooth-ivory1851 plicidentine1852 tooth-bone1853 1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions iii. §5. 255 The central body of dentine or tooth-ivory. † tooth-key n. Obsolete a dentist's instrument, turned like a key, formerly used for extracting teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth tooth-iron1483 pelican1598 tooth-drawer1598 dog1611 snap1611 plychon1688 pullikins1688 screw pelican1688 tooth-wrest1706 pounce1742 key instrument1762 key1774 punch1826 tooth-key1827 tooth-forceps1844 turnkey1855 1827 N. Arnott Elements Physics I. 247 The tooth-key is an instrument found in many hands. tooth-mark n. a mark made by a tooth in biting, or transferred by an edged tool. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > other traces or vestiges staddle1691 Indian sign1805 geological record1811 powder mark1823 earmark1836 rock record1851 tool-mark1865 staddle-stead1868 staddle-mark1876 waterline1876 posthole1888 tooth-mark1889 pollen count1926 snake mark1929 parch mark1947 tranchet blow1949 posthole pattern1950 posthole evidence1962 1889 C. C. Rhys Up for Season 53 A tooth-mark left me by her black-and-tan. tooth-marked adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [adjective] > having tooth-mark tooth-marked1831 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 52 Buttered toast, half eaten, and tooth-marked. tooth-mill n. a dentist's drill-stock or drilling-machine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills burr1859 burr-drill1859 drill1859 foot drill1860 tooth-mill1879 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §109 The dentist's tooth-mill is an..illustration of the elastic universal flexure joint. tooth-mug n. = tooth-glass n. (b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > vessel to hold false teeth tooth-glass1858 tooth-mug1891 1891 Outing Dec. 244/2 Some drank their champagne out of tooth mugs. 1935 Discovery Apr. 114/1 To this communal tooth-mug débris and food particles get transferred. 1979 A. Morice Murder in Outline ix. 77 Why not repair to..our room, where tooth mugs abound, and push the boat out? tooth ornament n. Architecture a kind of ornament or moulding suggesting a tooth or teeth: = dog-tooth n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > dog-tooth moulding dog-tooth1809 tooth ornament1840 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 2/1 A narrow lancet opening, having the tooth ornament in the hollow surrounding the same. † tooth-pain n. Obsolete = toothache n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth toothache1377 teeth-workc1440 tooth-warkc1480 the worma1583 tooth-pain?1593 odontalgy1651 odontalgia1706 tooth-aching1709 tooth-edge1794 teeth-ache1890 ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D4^v The only remedy for the tooth paine, either to haue patience, or to pull them out. toothpaste n. a paste used for cleaning the teeth; frequently attributive in toothpaste tube; also in figurative phrase to put the toothpaste back in the tube, illustrating the futility of trying to restore a stable state of affairs in the light of subsequent events. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice tooth-powder1542 dentifrice1558 rubber1558 tooth-blanch1585 tooth-soap1607 tooth-stick1729 toothpaste1832 tooth wash1871 the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > achieve the impossible [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip1662 to put the toothpaste back in the tube1975 1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 1 607/3 (advt.) Seidlitz powders, chloride of soda, chlorine tooth paste. 1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) at Tooth Edge T[ooth] Paste, Dentifricium. 1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary vi. 62 I get up off the floor, fetch my toothpaste-tube. 1975 Listener 9 Jan. 44/3 Haldeman says to him: ‘John, you ought to think about that, because once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to put it back again.’ 1978 F. King Action xxxi. 105 Pinching at an exhausted toothpaste tube. tooth-plane n. = toothing-plane n. at toothing n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > plane with serrated edge tooth-plane1823 toothing-plane1847 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 246 The Tooth-plane is fitted with a blade or iron, on the steel side of it covered with rakes or small grooves. tooth-plate n. Dentistry = plate n. 22. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > denture ratelier1812 plate1845 mineral teeth1851 denture1874 tooth-plate1880 teeth-plate1897 gnasher1919 snapper1924 chopper1937 1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 411 Teeth, real or artificial, or toothplates, become loosened during sleep. tooth-plugger n. an instrument for filling or stopping decayed teeth (Knight 1884). tooth-powder n. a powder used for cleaning the teeth, a dentifrice; also attributive, as tooth-powder box. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice tooth-powder1542 dentifrice1558 rubber1558 tooth-blanch1585 tooth-soap1607 tooth-stick1729 toothpaste1832 tooth wash1871 1542 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 89 Ane stoppell to keip the kingis grace twithe pulder. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 25 As a tooth-powder, nothing can exceed the virtues of charcoal. † tooth-proof adj. Obsolete having teeth of tried strength or efficiency (cf. proof adj. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [adjective] > sharp or strong tooth-proof1654 shark-toothed1794 nimble-toothed1850 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 101 The..more crusty meats fell to Sancho's share, who was tooth-proofe. tooth-puller n. one who extracts teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentist tooth-drawer1393 operator1598 dentist1759 dentologist1760 tooth-doctor1767 odontist1819 tooth-puller1839 dental surgeon1840 gum-digger1941 1839 J. Brown Lett. (1907) 46 A good tooth-puller can pull with any key or claw. tooth-pulling n. extraction of a tooth or teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > extraction of teeth tooth-drawing1610 tooth-pulling1850 extraction1878 tooth-extraction1898 exodontia1913 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxii. 220 No more than tooth-pulling, or any other pang, eternal. tooth-pulp n. the soft cellular tissue around which the hard parts of a tooth are developed, and which fills the cavity of the fully formed tooth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > growth of tissue from which tooth is developed > which fills cavity of fully-formed tooth pulp1771 tooth-pulp1854 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 265 The primary basis of the tooth, called ‘tooth-pulp’. tooth-rail n. a tramway rail having teeth or cogs. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > types of rail bridge rail1759 rack rail1829 light rail1836 saddle rail1837 T rail1837 rack1847 foot rail1856 tooth-rail1862 U-rail1868 strap-rail1874 check-rail1876 cog-rail1884 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 85 Mr. Blenkinsop of Leeds, in 1811, took out a patent for a racked or tooth-rail. tooth-rake n. †(a) a toothpick (obsolete); (b) a rake with teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for picker1481 toothpick1488 picktooth1542 tooth-picker1545 tooth-scrape1552 pick1562 tooth-rake1585 tooth-scraper1585 teeth-brush1651 dentiscalp1656 toothbrush1690 quill toothpick1775 quill1785 chew-stick1858 tooth-stick1859 dental silk1907 dental floss1922 floss1936 airbrasive1945 Water Pik1962 water toothpick1965 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > other types of rake muckrake1366 wording hook1605 swath-rake1652 dew-rake1659 pick1777 twitch rake1798 tooth-rakec1830 pea-rake1867 buck-rake1893 sea-rake1902 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 260/2 Dentiscalpium... Curedent. A tooth scraper, or tooth-rake. c1830 Pract. Treat. Roads 17 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III Scratching it [the surface], with a tooth-rake regularly all over, as occasion requires. tooth-rash n. an eruptive disease incident to infants when teething. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > of infants red gownc1400 red gum1597 white-gum1684 milk-blotch1797 strophulus1798 crusta lactea1806 tooth-rash1818 gum-rash1822 wildfire rash1822 teething rash1899 diaper rash1919 nappy rash1936 1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 321 Strophulus confertus, sometimes called the rank red gum and the tooth rash. tooth-ribbon n. the lingual ribbon or odontophore of certain molluscs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc ungulaa1382 mantlea1475 trunk1661 diaphragm1665 lid1681 operculum1681 ear1688 beard1697 corslet1753 scar1793 opercle1808 pleura1826 pallium1834 byssus1835 cephalic ganglia1835–6 opercule1836 lingual ribbon1839 tube1839 cloak1842 test1842 collar1847 testa1847 rachis1851 uncinus1851 land-shell1853 mantle cavity1853 mesopodium1853 propodium1853 radula1853 malacology1854 gill comb1861 pallial cavity1862 tongue-tootha1877 mesopode1877 odontophore1877 pallial chamber1877 shell-gland1877 rasp1879 protopodium1880 ctenidium1883 osphradium1883 shell-sac1883 tooth-ribbon1883 megalaesthete1885 rachidian1900 scungille1953 tentacle-sheath- 1883 J. G. Wood in Good Words Sept. 603/2 The still more curious ‘tooth-ribbon’ set with its hundreds of hooked toothlets. tooth-root n. = toothwort n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plumbaginaceae (leadwort and allies) > [noun] lead-wort1727 plumbago1731 toothwort1760 tooth-root1819 Armeria1836 1819 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VIII. 169 Among those, that flower in June, the most interesting are..the sarsaparilla, the dentaria or tooth-root,..and the mountain ash. tooth-sac n. a sac or hollow structure of connective tissue, within which a tooth is developed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > socket socket1601 alveolus1657 tooth-sac1890 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Tooth-sac, connective-tissue structure enclosing the dentine germ and enamel-organ in the fœtal development of the teeth. Categories » tooth-saw n. Dentistry a fine frame-saw for sawing off portions of the teeth (Knight 1877). tooth-scrape n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for picker1481 toothpick1488 picktooth1542 tooth-picker1545 tooth-scrape1552 pick1562 tooth-rake1585 tooth-scraper1585 teeth-brush1651 dentiscalp1656 toothbrush1690 quill toothpick1775 quill1785 chew-stick1858 tooth-stick1859 dental silk1907 dental floss1922 floss1936 airbrasive1945 Water Pik1962 water toothpick1965 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tothscrape instrument, dentiscalpium. † tooth-scraper n. Obsolete an instrument for scraping the teeth, as a toothpick, or a dentist's instrument. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for picker1481 toothpick1488 picktooth1542 tooth-picker1545 tooth-scrape1552 pick1562 tooth-rake1585 tooth-scraper1585 teeth-brush1651 dentiscalp1656 toothbrush1690 quill toothpick1775 quill1785 chew-stick1858 tooth-stick1859 dental silk1907 dental floss1922 floss1936 airbrasive1945 Water Pik1962 water toothpick1965 1585Tooth-scraper [see tooth-blanch n.]. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tooth-scraper. tooth-set adj. set with teeth, having tooth-like projections. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > other characteristics bosomed1744 sub-mountain1841 tooth-set1860 drumlinoid1894 swine-backed1908 1860 Artist & Craftsman 125 The toothset edge of those eternal hills. † tooth-shaken adj. Obsolete having the teeth loosened, as by age. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [adjective] > disorders of teeth tooth-shaken1549 snaggle-toothed1585 impacted1876 tartrous1904 overerupted1939 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Fij Wrincled, totheshaken..so desyrous yet of life. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 185 The Women are pittifully Tooth-shaken. tooth-soap n. a preparation for cleaning the teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice tooth-powder1542 dentifrice1558 rubber1558 tooth-blanch1585 tooth-soap1607 tooth-stick1729 toothpaste1832 tooth wash1871 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 516 That excellent powder, for the scowring and cleansing of the teeth called tooth-soape. tooth-stick n. †(a) a dentifrice in shape of a stick; (b) a stick used for cleaning the teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice tooth-powder1542 dentifrice1558 rubber1558 tooth-blanch1585 tooth-soap1607 tooth-stick1729 toothpaste1832 tooth wash1871 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for picker1481 toothpick1488 picktooth1542 tooth-picker1545 tooth-scrape1552 pick1562 tooth-rake1585 tooth-scraper1585 teeth-brush1651 dentiscalp1656 toothbrush1690 quill toothpick1775 quill1785 chew-stick1858 tooth-stick1859 dental silk1907 dental floss1922 floss1936 airbrasive1945 Water Pik1962 water toothpick1965 1729 MS Accts. F. Sitwell in Notes & Queries (1889) 12 Jan. 30/1 Disbursed at London..a silver tooth-stick, 8d. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 323 Some of the more civilized have learned..to use a toothstick. tooth-violet n. (also toothed-violet) = toothwort n. 3. ΚΠ 1863-79Tooth-Violet [see tooth-cress n.]. tooth-wark n. [compare headwark n.] now dialect toothache (cf. teeth-work in Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth toothache1377 teeth-workc1440 tooth-warkc1480 the worma1583 tooth-pain?1593 odontalgy1651 odontalgia1706 tooth-aching1709 tooth-edge1794 teeth-ache1890 c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 567 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 418 A mane sa disesyt..of tuth-wark. tooth wash n. a liquid dentifrice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > dentifrice tooth-powder1542 dentifrice1558 rubber1558 tooth-blanch1585 tooth-soap1607 tooth-stick1729 toothpaste1832 tooth wash1871 1871 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Aug. 284/2 He tendered me a tooth-wash atrocity of his own invention. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 716/2 Tooth-wash. 1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos (new ed.) lxxx. 104 Pepitone was wasting toothwash. tooth-wheel n. a wheel with teeth, a toothed wheel, cog-wheel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear cog-wheel1416 main wheel1678 spur-wheel1731 rack wheel1772 spur gear1808 gear1829 gearing1833 spur gearing1844 pitch wheel1854 tooth-wheel1862 gear-wheel1874 maintaining wheel1874 cog1883 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. 2/2 A series of shaftings and tooth-wheels. tooth-winged adj. having the wings toothed or notched on the outer margin, as certain butterflies. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [adjective] > of or relating to butterflies > having wings toothed or notched tooth-winged1891 1891 Cent. Dict. Tooth-winged. tooth-work n. (a) ornamental work resembling teeth; (b) work done with the teeth, i.e. eating (nonce-use). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > geometric checkingc1440 checkc1450 chequer-work1519 pane?a1549 diaper-work1602 chevron1605 diapery1631 fret1664 tooth-work1681 polygram1696 chequer1779 reticulum1797 Grecque1832 checkery1837 gammadion1848 diaper1851 key pattern1853 diapering1866 Greek fret1872 rangoli1884 geometric1894 Greek key1897 step pattern1908 Mondrian1964 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 133 The ridges also of the rounds are wrought with Tooth-Work. tooth-wound n. a wound inflicted by the tooth of an animal (cf. teeth-wound in Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > stings or bites stingc900 stinging1398 biting1527 flea-bite1570 flea-biting1598 bite1736 bug bite1739 snip1767 stangc1800 myiasis1839 snake-bite1839 tooth-wound1899 1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon T[ooth] wounds, wounds inflicted by the teeth of animals which do not owe their gravity to poison, but to the laceration of the tissues. † tooth-wrest n. Obsolete (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth tooth-iron1483 pelican1598 tooth-drawer1598 dog1611 snap1611 plychon1688 pullikins1688 screw pelican1688 tooth-wrest1706 pounce1742 key instrument1762 key1774 punch1826 tooth-key1827 tooth-forceps1844 turnkey1855 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tooth-wrest, an Instrument to draw, or pull out Teeth. C2. Combinations with the plural teeth (most of which have corresponding forms in tooth-: see above). teeth-ache n. (= toothache n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth toothache1377 teeth-workc1440 tooth-warkc1480 the worma1583 tooth-pain?1593 odontalgy1651 odontalgia1706 tooth-aching1709 tooth-edge1794 teeth-ache1890 1890 P. H. Emerson Wild Life xxii. 96 For teeth-ache we rub the inside wi' rum. teeth-brush n. (= toothbrush n.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > implements for picker1481 toothpick1488 picktooth1542 tooth-picker1545 tooth-scrape1552 pick1562 tooth-rake1585 tooth-scraper1585 teeth-brush1651 dentiscalp1656 toothbrush1690 quill toothpick1775 quill1785 chew-stick1858 tooth-stick1859 dental silk1907 dental floss1922 floss1936 airbrasive1945 Water Pik1962 water toothpick1965 1651 R. Verney in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonw. (1894) (III.) 39 A gift of the new Paris luxury—‘the Teeth Brushes and boxes’. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxvii. 57 Waiting-women, who..clean your teeth-brushes. teeth-chatter n. ΚΠ 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 43/2 He has managed to get up a masterly teeth-chatter. teeth-chattering n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > teeth chattering or set on edge teeth-chattering1796 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool > causing sensation of coldness > causing shivering, etc. shiveringc1200 shrugging1598 thrillinga1616 teeth-chattering1796 shivery1839 tooth-chattering1887 shiversome1930 1796 S. T. Coleridge Observ. Blossom 1st Feb. 3 This dark..teeth-chattering month. 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain viii. 109 He nearly aroused the Masai camp with teeth-chattering. teeth-dints n. (double plural of tooth-dint). ΚΠ 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 241 The foul fiend's teeth-dints may be seen. teeth-edging n. (setting the teeth on edge). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > [adjective] foula1398 uglyc1400 unsweet1579 absonant1600 teeth-edging1603 horrisonous1631 horrisonant1656 ungrateful1659 common sounding1676 lacerant1785 cacophonous1797 uncadencedc1838 cacophonic1847 unlistenable1872 uneuphonious1880 ineuphonious1887 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 346 That sharp, harsh, and teethedging noise that Smiths make in filing of brasse. teeth-filing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 477 The teeth-filing I think undoubtedly does arise from this. teeth-gnashing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] reighOE grima1000 vehementa1492 vehement1548 teeth-grinding1642 sulphury1657 tearing1692 Gothic1695 teeth-gnashinga1711 storming1905 a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 90 Teeth-gnashing Envy at the Saints above. teeth-grinding adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] reighOE grima1000 vehementa1492 vehement1548 teeth-grinding1642 sulphury1657 tearing1692 Gothic1695 teeth-gnashinga1711 storming1905 1642 A. Ross Mel Heliconium (1643) 175 Teeth-grinding anger, with fierce-glowing eyes. 1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) xxvi. 173 Teeth-grinding teenagers from Muswell Hill picking you up in Cortinas. teeth-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > specific shape mural1774 tooth-like1835 blind1848 teeth-like1884 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 6 Seeing the teeth-like edges which thus catch the fingers. teeth-mark n. ΚΠ 1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 202 Teeth-marks were found on..part of their body. 1900 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 362 Their works bear the teethmark of their own age. teeth-plate n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > denture ratelier1812 plate1845 mineral teeth1851 denture1874 tooth-plate1880 teeth-plate1897 gnasher1919 snapper1924 chopper1937 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 346 A badly fitting artificial teeth-plate. teeth-pulps n. (double plural of tooth-pulp). ΚΠ 1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. (1873) 4 The depth of these bony cells is only sufficient to contain the developing teeth and teeth-pulps. teeth-ridge n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > palate > alveolus teeth-ridge1928 gum-ridge1938 1928 I. C. Ward Phonetics of Eng. xiii. 117 T and d before r are articulated on the teeth, not on the teeth-ridge. 1966 J. Derrick Teaching Eng. to Immigrants iii. 127 The tip or blade (i.e. the very front part) of the tongue is just behind the upper gums (‘the teeth ridge’), i.e. towards the front of the mouth. teeth-watering n. (cf. phr. the teeth water at Phrases 5g). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [noun] > secretion of saliva > flowing of saliva in mouth watering1590 mouth-watering1664 teeth-watering1879 1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 273 That result known as ‘teeth-watering’, which may be described as a reminiscence of taste. † teeth-wind n. Obsolete (? a wind meeting one in the teeth). ΚΠ a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1863) 45 What a sad thing must it then be to lose this teeth-wind for Immanuel's land! † teeth-work n. Obsolete (= tooth-wark n. at Compounds 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth toothache1377 teeth-workc1440 tooth-warkc1480 the worma1583 tooth-pain?1593 odontalgy1651 odontalgia1706 tooth-aching1709 tooth-edge1794 teeth-ache1890 c1440 Thornton MS (E.E.T.S.) lf. 176 A charme for þe tethe worke. teeth-wound n. ΚΠ 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xv. 164 Five were scarred by direct teeth-wounds of bears. Draft additions January 2011 tooth-gnasher n. = teeth-gnasher n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1874 L. Hamel tr. E. Tegnér Frithiof 249 His two he-goats, Tan-gnioster and Tan-grisnir (the tooth-grinder and tooth-gnasher), are drawing the chariot in which he drives. 1931 Life 30 Oct. 739 Confirmed tooth-gnashers will do well to save up their gnashing for a worthier cause. 2001 Guardian 1 Oct. 8/4 It was a tooth-gnasher rather than a nail-biter and there was an inevitability about United's revival. Draft additions January 2011 teeth-gnasher n. (a) a person who or animal which engages in gnashing or grinding of the teeth; (figurative) a person who is (excessively) agitated or fretful about something; cf. gnasher n. 1; (b) a suspenseful or agonizing event, situation, etc.Frequently with allusion to biblical use of the phrase gnashing of teeth; cf. quot. 1535 at gnashing n. ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 745 Their [sc. wolves] Epithites which are attributed vnto them among seueral Authors are most cleare demonstrations of their disposition..as..Cattle-hurter, teeth-gnasher, [etc.]. 1868 Temple Bar June 402 This proud doctrine does not quite agree, to be sure, with the teeth gnashers, with the craw-thumpers, with the sackcloth-and-ashes people. 1978 Boston Globe 3 Sept. 47/1 The 14th hole plays across water, from one outcropping of lava to another. It's a teeth-gnasher. 1996 Network World 8 July 22/4 The usual wailers and teeth-gnashers are, of course, up in arms over this ‘intrusion’ by Big Brother into your personal space. 2008 Alberni Valley (Brit. Columbia) Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. 13 The Canucks are currently on a one-game winning streak, thanks to Sunday's 3-2 shootout teeth-gnasher over the Chicago Blackhawks. Draft additions September 2021 a. to suck one's teeth: to make a sound by sucking air and saliva through the teeth, in order to express contempt, disapproval, frustration, etc. Originally U.S. regional; now chiefly Caribbean. ΚΠ 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 175 Toby sucked his teeth..and made signs with his shoulders and elbows to the by-standers that he knew Hardy was drunk. 1897 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 7 Oct. 2/8 The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine..or 30 days imprisonment with hard labour. While leaving the dock the accused sucked her teeth. 1916 Living Age 1 July 30/2 Contemptuously he gazes on his fellow workers, sucks his teeth, and then delivers..‘Of all the mouldy perishing pessimists, you blighters take the blinkin' bun.’ 1961 I. Khan Jumbie Bird (1985) vi. 64 ‘Hai-hai,’ Pooran, another of the old men, sighed, sucking his teeth, moving his head dejectedly, from left to right. 2013 @__SincerelySino 16 July in twitter.com (accessed 29 Jan. 2021) Mi haffe suck mi teet pon dat last tweet deh suh! chupessss. b. to kiss one's teeth: to express contempt, disapproval, etc., by sucking air and saliva through the teeth; = to suck one's teeth at Additions a. Now often in kiss my teeth: used to indicate disdain or disgust (sometimes abbreviated kmt, esp. on social media). Originally and chiefly Caribbean. ΚΠ 1923 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 13 Mar. 13/1 [The constable] told her to put her feet into the disinfectant tub... She kissed her teeth and left. 1986 O. P. Adisa in S. Brown Caribbean New Wave (1990) 2 Richard turns away in vexation; he chups, kissing his teeth: ‘Is me yuh ave mout fah, nuh?’ 2013 @jaayfearless 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 29 Jan. 2021) Sometimes ah jus seh ‘cha’ an kiss mi teet. Kmt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). toothv. Brit. /tuːθ/, U.S. /tuθ/ Forms: see prec. Etymology: < tooth n. 1. intransitive. To develop, grow, or ‘cut’ teeth; to teethe. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [verb (intransitive)] > teethe teethea1425 toothc1425 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 32/1 Þei tothen [pr. tochen; MS. Digby 182 teth] ii tymes in þe yere whan þei be whelpes. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 665 As seek ar they [peacocks] as childron in tothynge. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 323 Toothing of Children is about the seventh Moneth. 1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia ii. 51 The pain of toothing often begins much earlier than is suspected. 2. transitive. To furnish or supply with teeth; to fit or fix teeth into; to cut teeth in or upon, to indent. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > make tools, equipment, or fastenings [verb (transitive)] > furnish tool with other parts tooth1483 tinea1529 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > project sharply from [verb (transitive)] > furnish with (a) sharp projection(s) tooth1483 tang1566 spike1716 jag1748 teethe1775 prong1874 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > indent the edge of [verb (transitive)] > serrate tedc1440 tooth1483 engrail1576 serrate1753 saw1780 1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 To Tuthe, dentare. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiii^v Than may he..toth the rakes with dry wethy wode. 1611 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 196 Making thre huckes and toothing nyne sicles, xv^d. 1747 W. Arderon in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 170 I toothed two Pieces of Brass..to fit each other. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 56 The toothing [of a sickle] is effected by a small well tempered chisel and a hammer. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 287/1 After toothing comes hardening [of saws]. 3. To exercise the teeth upon; to bite, gnaw. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (transitive)] eatc825 to-fret?c1225 vourc1330 dinec1380 to eat inc1450 engorge1541 tooth1579 canvass1602 get1603 eat1607 manger1609 upeat1630 dispatch1711 feed1725 yam1725 to eat off1733 repartake1751 patter1803 chop1833 smouse1840 to stow away1858 to put oneself outside ——1865 to get outside ——1876 to feed down1887 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 1 The Syracusans vsed such varietie of dishes..they were many times in doubt, which they shoulde touth first, or taste last. 1858 H. W. Beecher & E. D. Proctor Life Thoughts 50 The pragmatic prophecy-monger and the swinish utilitarian have toothed its fruits and craunched its blossoms. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxiii. 4 Each for penury fit to tooth a flint-stone. 4. To fit or fix into something by projections like teeth, or in the manner of teeth. a. transitive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > lay stones or bricks [verb (transitive)] > in specific way couch1531 bed1685 bond1700 coin1700 tooth1703 truss over1703 tail1823 rack1873 oversail1897 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4081 In the first Wall there are Stones in toothings, from the top to the bottom.] 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 51 'Tis common to Tooth in the stretching Course 2 Inches with the Stretcher only. 1793 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 341 By toothing the one into the other,..the whole settles,..into one corporate mass. 1888 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 7 Apr. 77/1 The defendant..might use it..by putting a lean-to against it, or by toothing a door support into it. b. intransitive for passive. To interlock. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > fit closely together > interlock interlock1632 tooth1700 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > fit closely together box1742 dovetail1813 mortise1861 tooth1865 mate1909 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 22 Whereas if the Header of one side of the Wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing. 1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 321 The one [mind] might have a conviction that it toothed at some points into the independent constitution of the other [matter]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c725v.c1425
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