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Of or pertaining to dentine.

The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. Knight.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

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

Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists. [R.]

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

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

Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.

Dentilingual.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

To denude. [Obs. or R.]

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.] To denunciate this new work. Burke.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.] Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall.