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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyetooth

Eyetooth \Eye"tooth\ ([imac]"t[=oo]th`), n.; pl. Eyeteeth ([imac]"t[=e]th`) (Anat.) A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth.

To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing.

Wiktionary
eyetooth

alt. a canine tooth of the upper jaw n. a canine tooth of the upper jaw

WordNet
eyetooth
  1. n. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: canine, canine tooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid]

  2. [also: eyeteeth (pl)]

Usage examples of "eyetooth".

Kowalefsky, the Polish cryptologist who had improved the codes that Yardley had solved, lectured on cryptanalysis, and the neophyte codebreakers cut their eyeteeth on the gray code of the U.

She also suffered from what is commonly referred to as buckteeth, with one crooked eyetooth on the left side.

Captain Kowalefsky, the Polish cryptologist who had improved the codes that Yardley had solved, lectured on cryptanalysis, and the neophyte codebreakers cut their eyeteeth on the gray code of the U.

The art historians would have given their eyeteeth for a fraction of this precious time.

Then he clamped his lips so tightly that his eyeteeth were visible under the tightly drawn flesh.

They had transformed the legendary thief into a boar, all but for his ears and eyeteeth and ankles, the last three curses, when a slow, tentative harping rippled across the night, mingling with the river’s murmuring.

Angry ex-Terrans or idealistic young natives from the tents, their stone eyeteeth dark in their smiles, their eyes glittering as they got this chance to meet her, as they spoke of kami, the need for purity, the intrinsic value of rock, the rights of the planet, and so on.

Would you have the goodness to tell me, am I right, does this page record the name of some person called Two Reed Yellow Eyetooth?

Rhett was so satisfactory in that respect She could recount shamelessly and with pride how she had skinned people out of their eyeteeth and he would applaud.