'Tooth' definitions:
Definition of 'tooth'
From: WordNet
noun
Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
noun
Something resembling the tooth of an animal
noun
Toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
noun
A means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
noun
One of a number of uniform projections on a gear
Definition of 'Tooth'
From: GCIDE
- Tooth \Tooth\ (t[=oo]th), n.; pl. Teeth (t[=e]th). [OE. toth,tooth, AS. t[=o][eth]; akin to OFries. t[=o]th, OS. & D. tand, OHG. zang, zan, G. zahn, Icel. t["o]nn, Sw. & Dan. tand, Goth. tumpus, Lith. dantis, W. dant, L. dens, dentis, Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, Skr. danta; probably originally the p. pr. of the verb to eat. [root]239. Cf. Eat, Dandelion, Dent the tooth of a wheel, Dental, Dentist, Indent, Tine of a fork, Tusk. ]
- 1. (Anat.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory, and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw, and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal. In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine, but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth, two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth. The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all. [1913 Webster]
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: Taste; palate. [1913 Webster]
- These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (a) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. (b) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Zool.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. [1913 Webster]
- In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort.
- In the teeth, directly; in direct opposition; in front. "Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth." --Pope.
- To cast in the teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with.
- Tooth and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. --L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." --Charles Reade.
- Tooth coralline (Zool.), any sertularian hydroid.
- Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids.
- Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key.
- Tooth net, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
- Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2.
- Tooth powder, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice.
- Tooth rash. (Med.) See Red-gum, 1.
- To show the teeth, to threaten. "When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite." --Young.
- To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. "That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth ." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tooth'
From: GCIDE
- Tooth \Tooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toothed; p. pr. & vb. n. Toothing.]
- 1. To furnish with teeth. [1913 Webster]
- The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. --Moxon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tooth'
From: Easton
- Tooth one of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). "Gnashing of teeth" =rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); "cleanness of teeth" =famine (Amos 4:6); "children's teeth set on edge" =children suffering for the sins of their fathers (Ezek. 18:2).
Synonyms of 'tooth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aftertaste,
- asperity,
- baby tooth,
- bicuspid,
- bitter,
- blaze,
- bucktooth,
- bumpiness,
- canine,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- coarsen,
- cog,
- comb,
- crag,
- cragginess,
- crenellate,
- crenulate,
- crimp,
- crown,
- cuspid,
- cut,
- cutter,
- deciduous tooth,
- dent,
- denticle,
- denticulation,
- dentil,
- dentition,
- dogtooth,
- eyetooth,
- fang,
- flavor,
- fore tooth,
- gagtooth,
- gang tooth,
- gash,
- gold tooth,
- grain,
- granulate,
- granulation,
- grinder,
- gust,
- harrow,
- harshness,
- hispidity,
- incise,
- incisor,
- indent,
- inequality,
- irregularity,
- jag,
- jaggedness,
- joltiness,
- knurl,
- machicolate,
- milk tooth,
- mill,
- molar,
- nick,
- nonuniformity,
- notch,
- palate,
- peak,
- pecten,
- peg,
- permanent tooth,
- picot,
- pink,
- pivot tooth,
- premolar,
- projection,
- raggedness,
- rake,
- ratchet,
- relish,
- rough air,
- roughen,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- rugosity,
- salt,
- sapidity,
- sapor,
- savor,
- savoriness,
- sawtooth,
- scallop,
- scarify,
- score,
- scotch,
- scraggliness,
- scrivello,
- serrate,
- slash,
- smack,
- smooth,
- snag,
- snaggle,
- snaggletooth,
- sour,
- spire,
- sprocket,
- spur,
- steeple,
- stomach,
- sweet,
- tang,
- taste,
- tongue,
- turbulence,
- tush,
- tusk,
- unevenness,
- unsmoothness,
- ununiformity,
- Vandyke,
- wisdom tooth
Words containing 'Tooth'
- Toothed,
- Toothful,
- Toothing,
- Bulb of a tooth,
- Butter tooth,
- Canine tooth,
- Chaw tooth,
- Cheek tooth,
- Colt's tooth,
- Corner tooth,
- Fleam tooth,
- Fore tooth,
- Gang tooth,
- Hag's tooth,
- Jaw tooth,
- Lion's tooth,
- Milk tooth,
- Mill tooth,
- Neck of a tooth,
- Peg tooth,
- Pivot tooth,
- Root of a tooth,
- Snag tooth,
- Sweet tooth,
- To have a colt's tooth,
- Tooth and nail,
- Tooth coralline,
- Tooth edge,
- Tooth key,
- Tooth net,
- Tooth ornament,
- Tooth powder,
- Tooth rash,
- Toothed whale,
- Toothed wheel,
- Toothing plane,
- Wang tooth,
- Wisdom tooth,
- abscessed tooth,
- adult tooth,
- baby tooth,
- back tooth,
- bleeding tooth,
- carnassial tooth,
- deciduous tooth,
- eye tooth,
- front tooth,
- impacted tooth,
- malposed tooth,
- permanent tooth,
- primary tooth,
- saw toothed,
- tooth decay,
- tooth doctor,
- tooth enamel,
- tooth fairy,
- tooth fungus,
- tooth root,
- tooth shell,
- tooth socket,
- tooth violet,
- toothed spurge,
- Gap-toothed,
- Gat-toothed,
- Saw-toothed,
- buck-toothed,
- fine-tooth,
- fine-toothed,
- gag-toothed,
- large tooth aspen,
- saber-toothed,
- sabre-toothed,
- sharp-toothed,
- small-toothed,
- toothed sword fern,
- To cast one's colt's tooth,
- big-toothed aspen,
- dog's-tooth check,
- dog's-tooth violet,
- dogs-tooth check,
- fine-tooth comb,
- fine-toothed comb,
- hound's-tooth check,
- large-toothed aspen,
- mouse-tooth forceps,
- saber-toothed tiger,
- saber-toothed tigers,
- charcot-marie-tooth disease,
- false saber-toothed tiger,
- white dog's-tooth violet