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Point on the crown of a tooth
Answer for the clue "Point on the crown of a tooth ", 4 letters:
cusp
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Word definitions for cusp in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cusp \Cusp\ (k[u^]sp), n. [L. cuspis, -idis, point, pointed end.] (Arch.) A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery. (Astrol.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As the world approached the cusp of a new millennium, the fire was still spreading. ▪ Death becomes him, for ever frozen in time as a complex and charismatic 24-year-old on the cusp of greatness. ▪ On the cusp of restructuring ...
Usage examples of cusp.
The bays are marked by plain aisle buttresses, terminating in three-cornered caps, with a battlement of cusped stonework ornamented with finials behind them.
Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a crocketed gable ending in a finial above it.
Against a high window with a cusped ogee arch she flapped her wings, straining to see inside.
The balustrade was ornamented with repetitive cusped lancets and a trefoil frieze.
To witness history being forged, to share the confidences of candidates on the cusp of the White House, to take part in the hype and hoopla of our quadrennial rite of democratic decisionthat all seemed a splendid adventure.
It consists of a single arch, divided into two smaller cusped arches by a central pillar with a circular opening above it, glazed and filled with six divisions of cusped tracery.
The tops of the divisions are ornamented with cusped arches of open stonework.
An arcading with shafts and cusped arches runs along the base of the front, not quite reaching the exterior buttresses.
House of Nochsyon Tod was a rambling walled compound near the South Cusp of the meniscus that was Lowport.
If fashion is a method of living both in the present and on the cusp of the coming future, thrift is a method of exercising an old-fashioned virtue for the longer future.
That music rose in a tangled tracery: arabesques of order competing fugally with the improvised discords of the party downstairs, which peaked sometimes in cusps and ogees of noise.
Colonel Mauricio Primitivo about this difficult duty in the spring after the first Chiapas uprising, when Verapaz had been on the cusp of becoming a hero to mestizo and indio alike.
She was Raphaelesque, like an old-fashioned Hollywood blond teetering on the cusp between beauty and slovenly middle-age, glossy curls falling past her shoulders, the milky loaves of her breasts swaying ponderously in gray silk, her motherly buttocks dimpling beneath a tight skirt, her scarlet lips reminding of those gelatin lips full of cherry syrup you buy at Halloween, her eyes tunnels of mascara pricked by glitters.
Even the blots of sweat on the twin cusps of her blue T-shirt are prettily semicircular.
It is made up of a group of five main cusps with a complex of intervening grooves and ridges that help to grind up food.