1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
Fig.: Taste; palate.
3. Noun
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.
4. Noun
A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
5. Noun
One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
6. Noun
An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant
7. Noun
one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
8. Noun
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.
9. Verb
To furnish with teeth.
10. Verb
To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
11. Verb
To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.
12. Noun
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
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13. Noun
something resembling the tooth of an animal
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14. Noun
one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
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