Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A canine tooth.
  • Same as cuspidate, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See tooth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tooth with a single cusp; a canine.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin cuspis, cuspid-, point.]

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Examples

  • Aluminum sculpture of the Virgen of Quito at the cuspid of El Panecillo.

    Global Voices in English » Ecuador: State Contracts With President’s Brother Raise Concerns 2009

  • My 4 month old has his upper left cuspid poking threw, and no other teeth yet.

    Mesiodens, or Extra Tooth Dr. Dean Brandon 2007

  • I watch the blood soak the front of my nightgown and the cuspid that cuts like a knife.

    Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003

  • That small purple ring on the gum of the cuspid in the case first mentioned would eventually have led to the loss of the whole set, if left to work its way unopposed.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

  • But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap?

    McTeague 1920

  • But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap?

    McTeague 1899

  • But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill

    McTeague Frank Norris 1886

  • Finally, she qualified at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami for a months-long procedure in which an eye tooth -- also called a canine or a cuspid -- was implanted in one eye.

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  • a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap?

    McTeague Frank Norris 1886

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