toothful (tothful)

[ Step round and take a toothful of something short to our better acquaintance. Whyte Melville , White Rose, II. i. toothill (töt'hil), n. [ toothil , toothille , totehylle, toothulle, tutchylle ; toot + hilll. Hence the local names Toothill , To thill , Tuttle , and the surnames Tuthill , Tuttle , Tottle.] A lookout-hill; any high place of observation; an eminence: now only as a local name. And in the myd place of on of hys Gardynes is a lytylle Mountayne, where there is a lytylle Medewe: and in that Medewe is a litylle Toothille with Toures and Pynacles, alle of Gold: and in that litylle Toothille wole he sytten often tyme, for to taken the Ayr and to desporten hym. Mandeville , Travels, p. 312. Cath . Ang ., p. 398. toothing (tö'thing), n. [Verbal n. of tooth , v .] In building , bricks or stones left projecting at the end of a wall that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when required. toothing-plane (tö'thing-plan), A Tute hylle ; Aruisium montarium, specula. ), n. A plane the iron of which, in place of being sharpened to a cutting edge, is formed into a series of small teeth. It is used to roughen a surface intended to be covered with veneer or cloth, in order to give a bet. ter hold to the glue.