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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 1. An instrument for picking or cleaning the teeth; a toothpick.
  2. n. An umbelliferous plant, Ammi Visnaga, of southern Europe: so called from the use made in Spain of the rays of the main umbel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete A toothpick.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A toothpick.

Etymologies

  1. pick +‎ tooth (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “As for the meat of this country, I can scarce eat it; and, though we pay two good shillings a head for our dinner, I find it all so tough that I have spent less time with my knife than my picktooth.”

    Oliver Goldsmith

  • “And this unhappy fancy fixing itself in his head, as he searched for it everywhere with the lanthorn of desire, it grew in four seconds from a picktooth to a pole, from a crab-apple to an Indian pumpkin, from barber's embers to a glass furnace, and from a dwarf to a giant; insomuch that he thought of nothing else than the image of that object encrusted in his heart as stone to stone.”

    Pentamerone. English

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  1. toothpick

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  1. visnaga

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