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Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.

Having two teeth. Swift.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. Shak.

by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher.

hildren, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

ound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.

To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.

A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.

Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

n of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.

shed; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

us substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.

e madness, hydrophobia. -- Canine toth, a toth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developen in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.