Synonyms:
tooth
Meaning: hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
Synonyms:
tooth
Meaning: something resembling the tooth of an animal
Synonyms:
tooth
Meaning: toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
Synonyms:
tooth
Meaning: a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
Usage examples
There is no danger yet; it has only one tooth.
He killed most of them with his paws, seldom putting a tooth in one.
Their arms are made of wood, without any iron point; but some instead thereof use a crocodile's tooth.
Don't you remember when you had that big double tooth pulled out, and he gave you five dollars, how he swore then?
All that night he was in this mood, and in agony, as if he had broken in the crown of a tooth and bitten on the nerve.
In his roll down the stairs, he had lost some of the candy, so that now his mouth and nose were free, though he was minus a tooth and several of his long smeller whiskers.
When he gets found out, he had better not come within reach of the seniors; I warn him of that: they might not leave him a head on his shoulders, or a tooth in his mouth."
The waves are a great planing machine attacking the land, and the tides raise and lower this planing machine, so that its denuding tooth is applied, now twenty feet vertically above mean level, now twenty feet below.
Said Peter 'I am well aware Mine is a state of happiness: And yet how gladly could I spare Some of the comforts I possess! What you call healthy appetite I feel as Hunger's savage tooth: And, when no dinner is in sight, The dinner-bell's a sound of ruth!
Now and then one of these personages would write something on a small slip of paper, and ring a bell, whereupon a familiar would appear, take the paper in profound silence, glide out of the room, and return shortly loaded with ponderous tomes, upon which the other would fall, tooth and nail, with famished voracity.