toothbrush (tothbrush)

with a long straight or curved handle, used for cleaning the teeth. toothbrush-tree (töth'brush-trē), n. See Sal vadora1. IMG:content-0574.png:[blocks in formation] The sluggish wheels; solemn their toothed maws, Their surly eyes brow-hidden. Keats , Endymion, ii. 2. Jagged; notched; dentate; serrate. The crushing is effected by means of two grooved cylinders consisting of toothed discs. Spons' Encyc. Manuf ., I. 454. Specifically- (a) Thorny. Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking go and thorns. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 180. (b) In bot., having a series of regular or irregular projecting points about the margin; dentate: as, a toothed leaf, calyx, etc.; having tooth-like projections, as the roots of Dentaria. (c) In ornith., having a tooth-like projection of the cutting edge of the bill, as a falcon's beak; dentirostral. See cuts under dentirostral and Thamnophilinæ. (d) In conch., having a tooth-like projection, or such pro jections, about the margin of a bivalve, or the aperture of a univalve, as a unio or a helix. See tooth, n., 3 (b), and cuts under bivalve. Monoceros, and Monodont a. (e) In an at., odontoid or dentate: noting the axis, or second cervical vertebra. See axis1, 3 (a). (f) In entom., having one or more sharp tooth-like proce es: as, a toothed margin or mandible. - Toothed herring. See herring. - Toothed shell. Same as tooth - shell. - Toothed snails. See snail.-Toothed whale. See whale. - Toothed wheels, wheels made to act upon or drive one another by having the surface of each indented with teeth, which fit into those of the other; cog-wheels. See tooth, 5 (d), wheel, and cut under pinion. tooth edge (töth'ej), n. [ tooth-flower (töth'flou"er), n. A rubiaceous plant, Dentella repens, the only species of its genus, a prostrate herb forming dense patches, found in Asia, Australia, and Polynesia. toothful (töth'ful), a. [ Our mealy grain Our skilfull Seed-man scatters not in vain; But, being covered by the tooth - full Harrow, Rots to reviue. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 2. Toothsome; palatable. What dainty relish on my tongue This fruit hath left! some angel hath me fed; If so tooth full , I will be banqueted.