Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dental surgeon; a qualified dentist.
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Examples
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Smith was now living at 14, Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road, in an unpalatial lodging, where he nominally carried on the profession of surgeon-dentist; but his best energies were thrown into his literary work, and there is no doubt that that work was to the taste of the
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Commercial business did not suit the young Coxwell, and at the age of one-and-twenty we find him trying his hand at the profession of surgeon-dentist, not, however, with any prospect of its keeping him from the longing of his soul, which grew stronger and stronger upon him.
The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875
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She knew that he had once called himself surgeon-dentist, and had some medical knowledge, if not so much as he took credit for possessing.
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How the unsuccessful surgeon-dentist had blossomed all at once into a fortunate speculator was a problem too profound for Georgy's consideration.
Birds of Prey 1875
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And thus had ended Philip Sheldon's career as a surgeon-dentist.
Birds of Prey 1875
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A shabby-genteel young man pervaded the neighbourhood for some days after the surgeon-dentist's advent, knocking a postman's knock, which only lacked the galvanic sharpness of the professional touch, and delivering neatly-printed circulars to the effect that Mr. Sheldon, surgeon-dentist, of 14
Birds of Prey 1875
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"Am I talking to Mr. Sheldon the stockbroker, or Mr. Sheldon the surgeon-dentist?" he asked.
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The inscription on the brass-plate informed the neighbourhood that No. 14 was occupied by Mr. Sheldon, surgeon-dentist; and the dwellers in
Birds of Prey 1875
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"There, I have undergone the risk of having one of my remaining teeth drawn (for one is terribly at the mercy of any surgeon-dentist; and I, for one, always speak them fair till I have got my mouth out of their clutches), and, after all, Mr Hoggins is too much of a man to own that he was robbed last night."
Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Remarkable character: -- A travelling surgeon-dentist, who has taken a room in the
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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