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Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

ed rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.…

A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.

A tooth of a wool comb. [Written also combrouch.]

A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.

The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.

The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.

One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

A fore tooth; an incisor. Ray.

Delicious to the palate; toothsome. Dainty bits Make rich the ribs. Shak.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.