hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

a means of enforcement; " the treaty had no teeth in it"

toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

something resembling the tooth of an animal

one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

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.

Fig.: Taste; palate.

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.

A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

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.

To furnish with teeth.

To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

One of the hard, bony projections growing in the jaws and used for biting and chewing; any projection resembling such a bone; as, a gear- tooth; a taste or fondness for a certain kind of food; as, she has a sweet tooth.

To indent or form into jagged points.

One of the small bones in the jaws, used in biting and chewing: the taste or palate: anything toothlike: a prong: one of the projections on a saw or wheel:- pl. TEETH.

To furnish with teeth: to cut into teeth.

One of the small bony projections from the jaws used in chewing; a prong; projection on a saw, wheel, & c.

One of the hard, dense structures of the mouth, used for chewing food.

Something resembling the tooth of an animal in form or use, as a projecting point, pin, or cog.

A bony substance growing out of the jaws of animals, and serving as the instrument of mastication; taste; palate; one of a series of projections resembling teeth.

To furnish with teeth; to indent; to jagg; to lock into each other. Tooth and nail, by all possible means. To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. To cast in the teeth, to retort reproachfully. In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition. To show the teeth, to threaten.

See teeth.

The man with the tooth was about to obey when his companion interposed. – Jess by H. Rider Haggard

When the child has for some week or two been feverish and suffering; while, though the gum is tense and swollen, the tooth does not seem to advance. – The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West, M.D.

Do say ah, Daddy, and keep your mouth open at the end, and lend me that tooth. – Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Besides, remember this, the tooth cannot be replaced, while in the case of a woman, one can find plenty to take her place. – French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

That's what it gets its name from; lion's tooth. – A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

If she met the man she wanted she would have him if she had to fight for him tooth and nail. – The Sisters-In-Law by Gertrude Atherton

She had a store tooth, where she knocked out one of hers, slidin', and she swallered it one night, and she never got over it. – Hildegarde's Home by Laura E. Richards

The fact is, I was cutting a tooth. – Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Care must be taken that a displaced tooth does not pass between the fragments, as this has been the cause of difficulty in reducing a fracture and of its failure to unite. – Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson

How true are the poet's words: 'Sharper than serpent's tooth! – The Time of Roses by L. T. Meade

I've been t' the dintist an' had a tooth out. – The Path to Home by Edgar A. Guest

By my father, and the tooth of my father, and by all that is in Erin, dead or alive, I would not give one other sight on Terrible Valley! – The Irish Fairy Book by Various

If our Heavenly Father would protect by law the eye and the tooth of a Hebrew servant, can we for a moment believe that he would abandon that same servant to the brutal rage of a master who would destroy even life itself? – The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society

By ear and eye and jungle law, I'll starve- I'll faint- I'll die before I bury tooth in thee!" – Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy

Thorn pointed to the tiger's tooth. – The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre

" Serpent's tooth," said Bob; " Private Gray." – Middy and Ensign by G. Manville Fenn