Word Meanings - COMBBROACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tooth of a wool comb.

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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• 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
• 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
• TOOTHPICKER
  A toothpick. Shak.
• TOOTH
  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. Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally
• TOOTHPICK
  A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
• TOOTHDRAWER
  One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.
• TOOTHY
  Toothed; with teeth. Croxall.
• TOOTHFUL
  Toothsome.
• TOOTHLESS
  Having no teeth. Cowper.
• TOOTHLET
  A little tooth, or like projection.
• TOOTHWORT
  A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathræa, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.
• TOOTHSOME
  Grateful to the taste; palable. -- Tooth"some*ly, adv. -- Tooth"some*ness, n. Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller.
• TOOTHACHE
  Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass , a kind of grass having a very pungent taste. -- Toothache tree. The prickly ash. A shrub of the genus Aralia .
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• SAW-TOOTHED
  Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
• PICKTOOTH
  A toothpick. Swift.
• COLT'S TOOTH
  See COLT
• EYETOOTH
  A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing.
• GAG-TOOTHED
  Having gagteeth.
• LION'S TOOTH
  See LEONTODON
• FORE TOOTH
  One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
• BUCKTOOTH
  Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.