Crossword clues for cuspid
cuspid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuspid \Cus"pid\ (k[u^]s"p[i^]d), n. [See Cusp.] (Anat.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1743, from Latin cuspis (genitive cuspidus) "point, pointed end" (see cusp). Of teeth, from 1878. Related: Cuspidate (adj.), attested from 1690s.
Wiktionary
n. A tooth with a single cusp; a canine.
WordNet
n. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth]
Usage examples of "cuspid".
Occlusion was pronounced and her upper left cuspid was pointed anteriorly and slightly outward.
He was clinging to the Lower Left Cuspid of Death, quaking uncontrollably, his beard and hair shocked white as chalk, his face drained of all color.
I blunted the bite with my shield and lopped off the point of the lower cuspid on the right.
His helmet spun off and his attacker sank long cuspids into the top of his skull.
Her lower jaw jutted forward aggressively, with protrusive cuspids on either side.
His upper cuspids projected, slightly curving, to more than an inch below his lower jaw, when it was closed.
Her cuspids were but little larger than those of her treecat cousins, and although her mindspeak was perfectly adequate for the military purposes to which she had been bred and trained, it was nowhere near as powerful or as far-ranging as was that of the purebred male prairiecat.
Cuspids really were the result of some geo-physical event, it would be natural to expect to see them distributed at random: as a result the triangulation would be scalene or irregular, whereas those concerning the lunar objects lead to a basilary system, with co-ordinates x,y,x, to the right angle, six isosceles triangles and two axes consisting of three points each.
His helmet spun off and his attacker sank long cuspids into the top of his skull.
Her lower jaw jutted forward aggressively, with protrusive cuspids on either side.
Take away the joke feet and they would look like the teeth of some fallen Biblical giant -- the cuspids were big white blocks and the canine teeth looked like tentpegs sunk in the improbably red plastic gums.
The four cuspids all responded somewhat like erectile tissue to his touch.