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nct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. or ts color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.

A brush for cleaning the teeth.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." Herrick.

The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Having no teeth. Cowper.

A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathræa, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.

Toothed; with teeth. [R] Croxall.

A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

An extinct order of Mammalia found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.

Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.

Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.

Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid.

A theory of the development of mammalian molar teeth. The primitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer…

The crocodile bird. The crocodile . . . opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding. Sir T. Herbert.

Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.

labor; to strive; to struggle. England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. Shak.

An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.