Tooth-comb
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tooth-comb is a noun meaning Alternative form of toothcomb.
Meaning
Alternative form of toothcomb.
Example Sentences
8.15 am. Tooth-combed seven heads, had grand sport; mixed bag, measured one teaspoonful; cleanliness is next to godliness!
Thin-skinned dunces, too, in power, hate satire, to use Sidney [i.e., Sydney] Smith's simile, for the same reason as "fleas detest tooth-combs," because they cannot escape it.
When the Arabs speak of things as alike in respect of good qualities, they call them 'as like as the teeth of a tooth-comb;' whereas, if they speak of similarity in bad qualities, they say 'as like as the teeth of an ass.'
Must interest has centered on the first appearance of the prosimian tooth-comb or tooth-scraper [...]. The tooth-comb is formed by lower incisors and canines that are elongated and slender, and that form a procumbent unit in the anterior mandible. Upper incisors are lost, reduced, or moved to accommodate the tooth-comb.
Word Forms
- tooth-combs
- tooth-combing
- tooth-combed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include teethbrush, cheektooth, horsecomb, snaggle-tooth, thatch rake, hair-brush.
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