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- noun Alternative spelling of
eyetooth .
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Examples
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His tooth also had started to ache again -- the right eye-tooth which was connected to the eye-nerve orbitalis.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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He felt a slight drawing pain in his upper jaw; probably the defective eye-tooth.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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"The root of the right eye-tooth is broken off and has remained in the jaw."
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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It is the orbitalis, he said to himself; it comes from the broken-off root of the eye-tooth.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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Her plight has been taken up by the same team at the Bascom-Palmer Eye institute that did the bizarre eye-tooth implant a few months ago.
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I'd give an eye-tooth or two to have been at this display of the greatest singer of the 20th century at the height of his powers, singing his ass off for 23 virtually perfect songs.
Tony Sachs: Frank Sinatra: Ten Years After His Death, The Best Is Yet To Come 2008
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Into this break in the series, in each jaw, fits the canine of the opposite jaw; the size of the eye-tooth in the Gorilla being so great that it projects, like a tusk, far beyond the general level of the other teeth.
Essays 2007
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They could see his low, flat-eared head, his bare eye-tooth and his thick, terrible forearm.
Burmese Days 2002
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The dragon unconsciously hooked an eye-tooth over her lip as she concentrated.
The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993
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Cracked finger-nail polish, third finger, left hand, and a devastating smile enhanced -- if, that is to say, that's possible -- by a slightly crooked left upper eye-tooth. '
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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