These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth.
Dryden.
3. 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. (a) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a
mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. (b) One of several
steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
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5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on
the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.), one
of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
6. (Zoöl.) 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.
In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to
every effort. — In the teeth, directly; in direct opposition; in front.
"Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth." Pope. — To cast in the
teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. — Tooth
and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by
all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for
international copyright." Charles Reade. — Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any
sertularian hydroid. — Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth
by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen
acids. — Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion
resembling that of turning a key. — Tooth net, a large fishing net
anchored. [Scot.] Jamieson. — Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth,
n., 2. — Tooth powder, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. -
- Tooth rash. (Med.) See Red-gum, 1. — To show the teeth, to threaten.
"When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite." Young. — To the
teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. "That I shall live,
and tell him to his teeth ." Shak.
Tooth (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toothed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Toothing.]
1. To furnish with teeth.
The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
Wordsworth.