Word Meanings - CEMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• TOOTH
  1. To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth. 2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. Moxon.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• TOOTHING
  Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of
• TOOTHBACK
  Any notodontian.
• TOOTHBILL
  A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the
• CEMENTATION
  A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus
• CEMENT
  Etym: 1. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet. 2. To unite firmly or closely. Shak. 3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TOOTHED
  Having marginal projecting points; dentate. Toothed whale , any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. -- Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on
• CEMENTATORY
  Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.
• TOOTHPICKER
  A toothpick. Shak.
• TOOTHPICK
  A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
• CEMENT STEEL
  Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
• TOOTHDRAWER
  One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.
• CEMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.
• TOOTHY
  Toothed; with teeth. Croxall.
• CEMENTITIOUS
  Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.
• TOOTHFUL
  Toothsome.
• SCARCEMENT
  An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• INTERLACEMENT
  The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
• DOLCE; DOLCEMENTE
  Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.