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Definition of Teeth

1. Noun. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.

Definition of Teeth

1. n. pl. of Tooth.

2. v. i. To breed, or grow, teeth.

Definition of Teeth

1. Noun. (plural of tooth) ¹

2. Noun. The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Teeth

1. tooth [n] - See also: tooth

Medical Definition of Teeth

1. Pl> Teeth . [OE. Toth,tooth, AS. T; akin to OFries. Tth, OS. & D. Tand, OHG. Zang, zan, G. Zahn, Icel. Tnn, Sw. & Dan. Tand, Goth. Tumpus, Lith. Dantis, W. Dant, L. Dens, dentis, Gr, Skr. Danta; probably originally the p. Pr. Of the verb to eat. 239. Cf. Eat, Dandelion, Dent the tooth of a wheel, Dental, Dentist, Indent, Tine of a fork, Tusk. 1. 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. 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. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child !" (Shak) 2. Taste; palate. "These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth." (Dryden) 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. 4. 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. 5., one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. 6. 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. 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." . 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. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." . Tooth coralline See Red-gum. To show the teeth, to threaten. "When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite." . To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. "That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth ." . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Teeth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"teeth are of various forms, but reducible to two types, of which the simpler ... These teeth are said to be "rootless." The other type, exemplified in man, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"teeth are of various forms, but reducible to two types, of which the simpler and more ... In form teeth vary from a simple spine-like or conical shape, ..."

3. Clinical Rheumatology: A Problem-oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Management by Roland W. Moskowitz (1921)
"ABSORPTION OF teeth BY NEWTON G. THOMAS, MA, DDS THE absorption of teeth implies a phenomenon which is known to occur in both dentitions. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Dentition well developed ; conical teeth on the jaw bones, on the vonier and ... Dentition well developed ; teeth on the maxilla and premaxilla smaller than ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"In its simplest form the milling cutter is a cylinder with teeth lying across ... 15), or else a disk with teeth radiating on its face, or at right angles ..."

6. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"Cysts developed on the root of erupted and fully formed teeth are not ... They will be referred to among the diseases of the teeth, but it may be here ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"Then conceive these knives to have the edges of their blades serrated with a row of fine teeth commencing near the haft, and on the handle itself five large ..."

8. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"Some fishes have divers rows of teeth in the roofs of their mouths; as pikes, ... Snakes and other serpents have venomous teeth ; which are sometimes ..."

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