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  • noun Alternative spelling of milk tooth.

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Examples

  • The other group did the reverse, imagining having a skin sample taken and reading about having a milk-tooth removed.

    Tricks of the mind 2003

  • Equally, memories of milk-tooth removal became more likely after having imagined it happening.

    Tricks of the mind 2003

  • This time they were also asked to describe any memories they had of the skin-sample event, the milk-tooth event and the three control events.

    Tricks of the mind 2003

  • One group was asked to imagine the milk-tooth event happening to them and read a passage about having a skin sample taken.

    Tricks of the mind 2003

  • One morning he said to me, pleased as a child who's pulled a loose milk-tooth, "Look what I got out," and showed a great splinter of rib.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • To do so with a child's milk-tooth which has fallen out will prevent the child from having toothache.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • To do so with a child’s milk-tooth which has fallen out will prevent the child from having toothache.

    Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 3. Contagious Magic 1922

  • To do so with a child's milk-tooth which has fallen out will prevent the child from having toothache.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • ADVERTISEMENT their way, there was little point in worrying about the odd cavity, meant that practically every stubby little milk-tooth in my head was filled.

    unknown title 2009

  • a preparation made by Nature for unearthing a soul, just as on the smaller scale there is for the removal of a milk-tooth.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

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