Word Meanings - DENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formation of teeth; toothed form. How did it get its barb, its dentation Paley.

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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• DENTATION
  Formation of teeth; toothed form. How did it get its barb, its dentation Paley.
• 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
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• 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.
• FORMATION
  The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow. (more info) 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
• 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.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• SAW-TOOTHED
  Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• EFFORMATION
  The act of giving shape or form. Ray.
• 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.
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.