Tooth \Tooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toothed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toothing.]
1. To furnish with teeth.
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The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
--Wordsworth.
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2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
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3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. --Moxon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Toothed \Toothed\, a.
1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and
toothed with pearl." --Herrick.
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2. (Bot. & Zool.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
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Toothed whale (Zool.), any whale of the order Denticete.
See Denticete.
Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set
on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by
their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toothed
adj 1: having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often
used in combination; "saw-toothed" [ant: toothless]
2: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn:
serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, notched]
3: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though
gnawed [syn: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched]
WordNet (r) 2.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "toothed":
acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform,
acuminate, acute, barbed, battlemented, bicuspid, chopped, clawed,
cornuted, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, cusped,
cuspidate, dental, dentate, dentated, dentiform, dentoid, digital,
digitate, digitated, embrasured, erose, fanged, fingered, gashed,
hispid, horned, horny, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, jawed,
lacerate, lacerated, molar, mucronate, needle-pointed,
needle-sharp, nicked, notched, odontoid, pointed, prehensile,
pronged, raptorial, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored,
serrate, serrated, serrulated, sharp-pointed, snaggle-toothed,
snaggled, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny,
taloned, tapered, tapering, tined, toothlike, toothy, tusked,
unbated
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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