For birds in bushes tooting.
Spenser.
Toot, v. t. To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
Toot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tooted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tooting.] [Cf. D.
toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw. tuta, Dan. tude; probably of
imitative origin.] To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by
contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning
and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when
blown. "A tooting horn." Howell.
Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches.
Thackeray.
Toot, v. t. To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at
the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to
sound.
Toot"er (?), n. One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn. B.
Jonson.
Tooth (?), n.; pl. Teeth (#). [OE. toth,tooth, AS. tð; akin to OFries.
tth, OS. & D. tand, OHG. zang, zan, G. zahn, Icel. tönn, Sw. & Dan.
tand, Goth. tumpus, Lith. dantis, W. dant, L. dens, dentis, Gr.
'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, Skr. danta; probably originally the p. pr. of the
verb to eat. √239. Cf. Eat, Dandelion, Dent the tooth of a wheel,
Dental, Dentist, Indent, Tine of a fork, Tusk. ] 1. (Anat.) 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.
The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory,
and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined
in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or
body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw,
and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the
teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both
sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal.
In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine,
but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of
bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the
two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth,
two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth.
The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being
two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The
last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and
occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child !
Shak.