Tooth

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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
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

13. Noun

something resembling the tooth of an animal
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric

14. Noun

one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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