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Toothed

Toothed \Toothed\, a.

  1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. ``Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl.''
    --Herrick.

  2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.

    Toothed whale (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Toothed

Tooth \Tooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toothed; p. pr. & vb. n. Toothing.]

  1. To furnish with teeth.

    The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
    --Wordsworth.

  2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

  3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n.,


  4. --Moxon.

Wiktionary
toothed
  1. 1 Having tooth. 2 Having projections resembling teeth. v

  2. (en-past of: tooth)

WordNet
toothed
  1. adj. 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]

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Usage examples of "toothed".

The bunches of agrimony hanging head downward inside the warm dark cave were an infusion of the dried flowers and leaves useful for bruises and injuries to internal organs, as much as they were tall slender perennials with toothed leaves and tiny yellow flowers growing on tapering spikes.

Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.

The more advanced leaves are seen to be seven-cut, each lobe divided and sub-divided by cuts less deep, the whole leaf being richly toothed and veined.

The leaves are inversely ovate, lanceolate, villose, and slightly toothed.

When he needs breath he pulls the statue to him, the little grotesquerie hunched and glowing in the night sea with faint biotic light, the toothed osculum a puncture-hole of dark, the open eye wide and mocking, tar-black, and he kisses it deeply and feels its flickering tongue-thing with the disgust that he can never banish.

Soft polyps should be drawn out with a toothed tenaculum as far as can be without risk of breaking them off.

Straight at Ged in the small rocking boat he came, opening his long, toothed jaws as he slid down arrowy from the air: so that all Ged had to do was bind his wings and limbs stiff with one sharp spell and send him thus hurtling aside into the sea like a stone falling.

The foliage is entirely stemless, the nude flower stalks issuing from between the leaves, which are roundly toothed, evenly and deeply wrinkled, and elliptical in outline.

Yonder strode caciques of the Azteca with saw edged, obsidian toothed swords hanging by their sides.

Again Nate was put in mind of the blowhole of a toothed whale, but it was so big, nearly four feet across, it was just.

By the flaring holocaust light the toothed wheels, the soot-blackened timber cage of the raised grinders seemed more than ever some Dantean vision of torment.

Soft polyps should be drawn out with a toothed tenaculum as far as can be without risk of breaking them off.

Inside the sparking plug they fixed a toothed firing wheel and a long pyrophorous rod with a microfeed mechanism.

The segments are oblong, undivided, and at the base quite entire, but finely toothed near the top.

The little leaves are of various shapes, and distinctly toothed, being about the size of the bowl of a dessert spoon.