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To breed, or grow, teeth.

The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.

described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.

. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadruma…

a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

In a row. [Obs.] "All her teeth arew." Spenser.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

dge; security. [Obs.] Spenser. Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.