Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tooth under the eye: a name given to the two canine teeth of the upper jaw, between the incisors and premolars. Also called dog-tooth.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
- n. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
Etymologies
- Perhaps so called from its location immediately below the eye. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the procedure -- which was pioneered in Italy but was a first in the United States -- the medical team extracted Thornton's canine or "eyetooth" and surrounding bone, shaved and sculpted it, and drilled a hole into it to insert an optical cylinder lens.”
“Later he would go to sleep with the throbbing around the hole that had once sheltered his eyetooth, but happy to be able to join the brotherhood of the toothless.”
“That got her to smile a smile so wide and happy that I saw her left eyetooth was slightly crooked.”
“The bear's eyetooth caught in his scalp and cut the top of his ear off, slicing a wide furrow around his head.”
“I look from the crooked part of her hair to the eyetooth that's twisted the tiniest bit – the little flaws that made her more striking instead of less so.”
“There was a long pause and Junior stood sucking on an eyetooth and studying deep on something, and then he said, “What you about to learn is they ain't no balm in Gilead.””
“Rollo, upper lip lifted just enough to show a menacing eyetooth, shoved his nose into the visitor's armpit, sniffed, then jerked back his head and sneezed explosively.”
“He laid his nose upon his feet, but kept his ears cocked, lip raised over one eyetooth in case he should be called upon to rend the visitor limb from limb.”
“But he also knew that when a dog lowers his head and growls, showing his eyetooth, he means business.”
“One slash of her curving eyetooth laid bare his cheek.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyetooth’.
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A Toothy List
canine tooth, pin-tooth, stomach-tooth, bulb of a tooth, by the skin of on..., cardinal teeth, clean as a hound'..., elephant's-tooth, toothshell, hake's-tooth, cut one's teeth, lie through one's... and 93 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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