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To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.

One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn. B. Jonson.

Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste. -- Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (A. spinosa).

Any notodontian.

e has two or three strong teeth toward the end. or ts color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.

A brush for cleaning the teeth.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." Herrick.

Toothsome. [Obs.]

order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.

Having no teeth. Cowper.

A little tooth, or like projection.

Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf. [Written also toothletted.]

A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

A toothpick. [Obs.] Shak.

Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.

Grateful to the taste; palable. -- Tooth"some*ly, adv. -- Tooth"some*ness, n. Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller.

A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathræa, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.

Toothed; with teeth. [R] Croxall.