tooth

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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.

2. 2noun

   Fig.: Taste; palate.

3. 3noun

   Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

4. 4noun

   A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

5. 5noun

   One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

6. 6noun

   An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

7. 7noun

   one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

8. 8noun

   Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.

9. 9transitive verb

   To furnish with teeth.

10. 10transitive verb

    To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

11. 11transitive verb

    To lock into each other. See Tooth., 4.

12. 12noun

    a means of enforcement

    "the treaty had no teeth in it"

13. 13noun

    toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

14. 14noun

    something resembling the tooth of an animal

15. 15noun

    one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

16. 16noun

    hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense