Definitions for tooths

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tooths tooth

Spelling: [tooth]

IPA: /tuθ/

Tooths is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in tooths (hoostt).

Definitions for tooths

noun

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.

Idioms

1. by the skin of one's teeth, barely:
2. cast / throw in someone's teeth, to reproach someone for (an action):
3. cut one's teeth on, to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc., or in one's youth:
4. in the teeth of, so as to face or confront; straight into or against: in defiance of; in opposition to:
5. long in the tooth, old; elderly.
6. put teeth in / into, to establish or increase the effectiveness of:
7. set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty:
8. set / put one's teeth on edge, to induce an unpleasant sensation. to repel; irritate:
9. show one's teeth, to become hostile or threatening; exhibit anger:
10. to the teeth, entirely; fully:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with teeth.
2. to cut teeth upon.

verb (used without object)

1. to interlock, as cogwheels.

Origin of tooths

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

Examples for tooths

"Like when our doctor cutted poor Baby's tooths to make them come through," said Peggy, eagerly.

And I told her as how I thought it would have two tooths soon, and she said that would be interest.

And this is the case, according to Mr. tooths observation, with all that he has seen or heard of, viz.