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One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

To breed or cut new teeth. [R.] The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice. Bacon.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value…

Low estimation; disesteem; contempt. [Obs.]

ination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

A devotee. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.

A devotee. [Obs.] Sheldon.

essel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail. [Also written dow.]

A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

ng a wick in melted tallow. -- To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] -- To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont. -- n.

The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.] Dipping needle, a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.

Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.