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[1] (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
[2] (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell.
[3] any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth.
[4] one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc.
[5] Machinery . any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives, or is driven by, a gear, rack, or worm. any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain.
[6] Botany . any small, toothlike marginal lobe. one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses.
[7] a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.
[8] taste, relish, or liking.
[9] a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part.
[10] a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting.
[11] to furnish with teeth.
[12] to cut teeth upon.
[13] to interlock, as cogwheels.
[14] by the skin of one's teeth , barely: He got away by the skin of his teeth.
[15] cast /throw in someone's teeth , to reproach someone for (an action): History will ever throw this blunder in his teeth.
[16] cut one's teeth on , to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc., or in one's youth: The hunter boasted of having cut his teeth on tigers.
[17] in the teeth of , so as to face or confront; straight into or against: in the teeth of the wind. in defiance of; in opposition to: She maintained her stand in the teeth of public opinion.
[18] long in the tooth , old; elderly.
[19] put teeth in /into , to establish or increase the effectiveness of: to put teeth into the law.
[20] set one's teeth , to become resolute; prepare for difficulty: He set his teeth and separated the combatants.
[21] set /put one's teeth on edge , to induce an unpleasant sensation. to repel; irritate: The noise of the machines sets my teeth on edge.
[22] show one's teeth , to become hostile or threatening; exhibit anger: Usually friendly, she suddenly began to show her teeth.
[23] to the teeth , entirely; fully: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth in furs.
[24] slang the practice of attempting to intitiate sex with strangers through text messages sent using Bluetooth telephone technology
[25] any of various bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates and modified, according to the species, for biting, tearing, or chewing Related adjective: dental
[26] any of various similar structures in invertebrates, occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal
[27] anything resembling a tooth in shape, prominence, or function the tooth of a comb
[28] any of the various small indentations occurring on the margin of a leaf, petal, etc
[29] any one of a number of uniform projections on a gear, sprocket, rack, etc, by which drive is transmitted
[30] taste or appetite (esp in the phrase sweet tooth )
[31] long in the tooth old or ageing: used originally of horses, because their gums recede with age
[32] tooth and nail with ferocity and force we fought tooth and nail
[33] (tr) to provide with a tooth or teeth
[34] (intr) (of two gearwheels) to engage

Words related to Toothing

toothchew, cut, wound, nibble, chomp, gnaw, snap, eat, clamp, crunch, pierce, ruminate, rend, seize, taste, pinch, lacerate, munch, tooth, crush

Words nearby Toothing

toothtoorak tractor, toorie, tooshie, toot, toot one's own horn, tooth, tooth and nail, tooth ax, tooth bud, tooth chisel, tooth decay

Origin of Toothing

before 900; Middle English; Old English tōth; cognate with Dutch tand, German Zahn, Old Norse tǫnn; akin to Gothic tunthus, Latin dēns, Greek odoús (Ionic odṓn ), Sanskrit dánta

Other words from Toothing

tooth·like , adjective

Word origin for Toothing

Old English tōth; related to Old Saxon tand, Old High German zand, Old Norse tonn, Gothic tunthus, Latin dens

Synonyms for Toothing

chew, chomp, cut, eat, gnaw, nibble, snap, wound, champ, chaw, clamp, crunch, crush, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, taste, tooth, chaw on, take a chunk out of