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.
Toothache
(Tooth"ache`) n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste. — Toothache
tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia
Toothback
(Tooth"back`) n. (Zoöl.) Any notodontian.
Toothbill
(Tooth"bill`) n. (Zoöl.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) 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 end. Its
color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu- mea.
Toothbrush
(Tooth"brush`) n. A brush for cleaning the teeth.
Toothdrawer
(Tooth"draw`er) n. One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.
Shak.
Toothed
(Toothed) a.
1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." Herrick.
2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
Toothed whale (Zoöl.), 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 the engaging teeth of another wheel.
Toothful
(Tooth"ful) a. Toothsome. [Obs.]
Toothing
(Tooth"ing), n.
1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
2. (Masonry) 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
roughening surfaces, as of veneers.
Toothless
(Tooth"less), a. Having no teeth. Cowper.
Toothlet
(Tooth"let) n. A little tooth, or like projection.
Toothleted
(Tooth"let*ed), a. Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf. [Written also toothletted.]
Toothpick
(Tooth"pick`) n. A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between
them.
Toothpicker
(Tooth"pick`er) n. A toothpick. [Obs.] Shak.
