3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. Moxon.

Tooth"ache` (?), n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.

Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a

very pungent taste. — Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A

shrub of the genus Aralia (A. spinosa).

Tooth"back` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any notodontian.

Tooth"bill` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon

(Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for

its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its

beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three

strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also

toothbilled pigeon, and manu- mea.

Tooth"brush` (?), n. A brush for cleaning the teeth.

Tooth"draw`er (?), n. One whose business it is to extract teeth with

instruments; a dentist. Shak.

Toothed (?), a. 1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and

toothed with pearl." Herrick.

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