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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Tooth, n. p. 1393(Anat.) One of the series of small bones attached to the jaws of vertebrate animals which serve the purpose of taking food and preparing it for deglutition and digestion. How sharper than a serpent’s…Tooth, v. t. p. 1393To furnish with teeth; as, to tooth a rake. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth. 2. To indent; to cut into teeth; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 3. To lock into each other. Moxon.Tooth'ache, n. p. 1393Pain in the teeth.Toōth'āche-tree, n. p. 1393(Bot.) (a.) An evergreen shrub of the genus Xanthoxylum. (b.) A shrub of the genus Aralia (A. spinosa).Tooth'-brush, n. p. 1393A brush for cleaning the teeth.Tooth'-draw'er, n. p. 1393One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments.Toōth'-drāw/ing, n. p. 1393The act of extracting a tooth; the practice of extracting teeth.Tōothed, p. a. p. 1393Having teeth or jags. 2. (Bot.) Having projecting points, remote from each other, about the edge; dentate. Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference…Tooth'-ĕdge, n. p. 1393The sensation excited by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids.Tooth'ful, a. p. 1393Palatable. [Obs.]Tooth'ing, n. p. 1393(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.Tooth'ing-plāne, n. p. 1393A plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.Tooth'-kēy, n. p. 1393An instrument used to extract teeth, by a motion resembling that of the turning of a key.Tooth'less, a. p. 1393Having no teeth.Tooth'let, n. p. 1393A little tooth, or like projection.Tooth'let-ed, a. p. 1393Having a toothlet. 2. (Bot.) Having very small teeth, or projecting points, as a leaf.Toōth'-nĕt, n. p. 1393A large fishing-net anchored. [Scot.] Jamieson.Tooth'-pick or Tooth'-pick'er, n. p. 1393An instrument for cleaning the teeth of substances lodged between them.Tooth'-pow'der, n. p. 1393A powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice.Tooth'-räsh, n. p. 1393(Med.) An eruption of red, or sometimes whitish, pimples, occurring in early infancy; red-gum.Tooth'-shell, n. p. 1393(Conch.) A gastropodous mollusk of the genus Dentalium, having a symmetrical, tubular, conical, and generally curved shell. It is found at a slight depth in the mud or sand of the sea-shore, in which…Tōōth'sōme, a. p. 1393Grateful to the taste; palatable. Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller.Tōōth'sōme-ness, n. p. 1393The quality of being toothsome.Tooth'wort, n. p. 1393(Bot.) A plant whose roots resemble human teeth, such as certain plants of the genus Lathræa, and various species of Dentaria. This name is also given to the leadwort, of the genus Plumbago, from its…Tōoth'y, a. p. 1393Toothed; having teeth. [R.] Croxall.Tŏp, n. p. 1393The highest part of any thing; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; as, the top of a tree; the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the…Tŏp, n. p. 1393A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point usually by drawing a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a…Tŏp, v. i. p. 1393To rise aloft; to be eminent; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains. 2. To predominate; as, topping passions; topping uneasiness. 3. To excel; to rise above others. But write thy best, and top.…Tŏp, v. t. p. 1393To cover on the top; to tip; to cap. “Mountains topped with snow.” Waller. A mount Of alabaster, topped with golden spires. Milton. 2. To rise above. “Topping all others in boasting.” Shak. 3. To…Tō'pārch, n. p. 1393The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. “The prince and toparch of that country.” Fuller.Tō'părch-y, n. p. 1393A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.Tōp'-ār'mor, n. p. 1393(Naut.) A railing on the top, supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.Tō'ram, n. p. 1393The horned Indian rhinoceros bird; the Buceros rhinoceros, of the passerine order; horn-bill. See HORN-BILL.Tō′paz, n. p. 1393(Min.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenish, bluish, or brownish shades; sometimes massive and opaque, and consisting of silica…To-päz'o-lite, n. p. 1393(Min.) A variety of precious garnet, of a topaz-yellow color, or an olive-green.Tŏp'-blŏck, n. p. 1393(Naut.) A large iron-bound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eye-bolt in the cap, used in swaying and lowering the topmast. Totten.Tōp'-bōots, n. pl. p. 1393Boots with an ornamental band of some kind of bright-colored leather around the upper part. Dickens.Tŏp'-chăin, n. p. 1393(Naut.) A chain to sling the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.Tōp'-clōth, n. p. 1394(Naut.) A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action.Tōp'-cōat, n. p. 1394An outer or upper coat. [Eng.]Tôp'-drâin'ing, n. p. 1394The act or practice of draining the surface of land.Tōp'-drĕss, v. t. p. 1394To apply a dressing of manure to, as the surface of land.Tôp'-drêss'ing, n. p. 1394A dressing of manure laid on the surface of land.Tōpe, n. p. 1394(Ichth.) A fish of the shark family, and genus Galeus, resembling the dog-fish in its general aspect. Jardine.Tōpe, n. p. 1394A monument erected over a Buddhist relic, sometimes resembling a pagoda.Tōpe, n. p. 1394A grove or clump of trees; — so called in Hindostan.Tōpe, v. i. p. 1394To drink hard; to drink strong or spirituous liquors to excess. “If you tope in form, and treat.” Dryden.Tō'per, n. p. 1394One who topes, or drinks to excess; a drunkard; a sot.Tôp'et, n. p. 1394A small bird; the crested titmouse; — called also toupet, or toupet-tit. ☞ The crested titmouse of Latham (Parus bicolor) is the toupet titmouse of Pennant.Tōp'ful, a. p. 1394Full to the top, or brim. “Topful of direst cruelty.” Shak.Tōp'-găl'lant, a. p. 1394(Naut.) Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; being the third of the kind in order from the deck; as, the top-gallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. 2. Highest; elevated; splendid.…Tôph, n. p. 1394A kind of sandstone.To-phâ'ceoûs, a. p. 1394Gritty; sandy; rough; stony. Arbuthnot.Tŏp'-hăm'per, n. p. 1394(Naut.) The upper rigging, spars, &c., of a ship. All the ships of the fleet . . . were so encumbered with top-hamper, so over-weighted in proportion to their draught of water, that they could bear…Tŏp'-hĕav'y, a. p. 1394Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower. Wotton.Tō′phet, n. p. 1394A place lying east or south-east of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. It seems to have been at first part of the royal garden, but it was afterward defiled and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal…Tōph'in, n. p. 1394The same as TOPH, q. v.Tō'phus, n. p. 1394(Med.) The calcareous concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. 2. (Min.) A kind of porous calcareous deposit from water. Brandé.Tōp'i-a-ry, a. p. 1394Shaped by cutting. Topiary work, the fanciful form sometimes given, by cutting and trimming, to arbors and thickets, trees and hedges. Francis.Tōp'ic, n. p. 1394(Rhet. & Logic.) One of the various general forms of argument to be employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, — denominated by Aristotle τόποι (places), as the places from…