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teething

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Word definitions for teething in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the eruption through the gums of baby teeth [syn: dentition , odontiasis ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth; dentition. vb. (present participle of teethe English)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1724, verbal noun from teethe (v.). Teething-ring attested from 1853.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teething \Teeth"ing\, n. The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

Usage examples of teething.

The blackdeath used its tiny hands to maneuver the severed limb around, the way an eggling might play with a teething rod, then at last it dropped the remainsbones slick with blood, tendons and remnants of flesh dangling from them.

Angel came back to the cider house to see how the teething was going, Baby Rose was not the only Rose with a pacifier stuck in her mouth.

Doc, who had just finished filling a prescription, handed a customer a bottle of paregoric for her baby who was teething.

But even setting that aside, the brutal, overriding truth was that Chinas economy was based on exports of everything from guns to teething rings.

Danni put something that looked like a giant teething ring with a black eyeball in the center onto the repulsor pallet.

With each trip to town, she brought home a few more items for the baby until she had a supply of little undershirts, socks, sleepsuits, and newborn outfits along with the requisite bibs, rattles, teething rings, baby powder, diapers, and assorted baby items, all of it augmented by purchases Jessy had made.

It is not easy to stop there, when there are other stories in the volume to talk about, and I remember so well every birth pang, every cranky teething through the typewriter.

A fracture, a burn, a cut, a dropsy, a menopause, a pregnancy, two pelvics, a scattering of colds, a feeding schedule, two teethings, a suspicious lung, a possible gallstone, a cirrhosis of the liver and Martha Anderson.

Life had been so simple, he thought, when all he'd had to worry about was diaper rash and teething.

One of the best remedies for diarrhoeas of teething children, due to poor assimilation of food.

If pipes were substitutes for feeding bottles at moments of regression into infancy, then a B-stick was a kind of teething ring.

I’ve nursed five children, and buried three: and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, and with accomplishments at Minerva House—which I never had when I was a girl—when I was too glad to honour my father and mother, that I might live long in the land, and to be useful, and not to mope all day in my room and act the fine lady—says I’m a murderess.

We had a few teething troubles in the butchery department: Ace used her lightgun on the first one, and it exploded with a surprised expression upon its face, singeing my eyebrows.

Kisen's biscuits were heavy, but the one that Nylan offered Weryl seemed to keep the boy busy, half as food and half as a teething ring of sorts.

Schwarz before picking Jeanette up and purchase the following: a doll, a rattle, a teething ring, a white Gund polar bear, and have them sitting in the backseat for her, unwrapped.