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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

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 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 hard conical structures set in the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws, employed in mastication and assisting also in articulation. A tooth is a dermal structure, not bone; it is composed of dentine (substantia eburnea), encased in cement (substantia ossea) on the covered portion, and enamel (substantia adamantina), on its exposed portion. It consists of a root (radix) buried in the alveolus, a neck (collum) covered by the gum, and a crown (corona) the exposed portion. In the center is a hollow, the tooth-cavity or pulp-cavity, filled with a connective-tissue reticulum containing a jelly-like substance (pulpa dentis) and blood-vessels and nerves which enter through a canal at the apex of the root. The 20 milk-teeth or deciduous teeth (see dens deciduus) appear between the sixth or ninth and the twenty-fourth months of life. These fall out and are replaced by the 32 permanent teeth (see dens permanens) appearing from the 5th or 7th to the 16th or 23d years. There are four kinds of teeth; incisor (dens incisivus), canine (dens caninus), bicuspid or premolar (dens premolaris), and molar (dens molaris). See dens, denial, dentition, and teeth.

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.

See teeth.

One of a set of small bone-like structures of the jaws for masticating food.

pl., teeth. A hard, bonelike organ implanted in man and most mammals, in the inferior and superior maxillae, which serves for the mastication of food. It consists of a central cavity containing t. pulp, dentin, enamel, and cement.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Greek] One of the series of small bones attached to the jaws of vertebrate animals which serve the purpose of taking and chewing food;-hence, taste ; palate;- any projection corresponding to the tooth;-a tine; a prong of a multifid instrument, as a rake, comb, &c. ;-a projecting part on the axis of a wheel fitting into or catching correspondent parts in other bodies.