Word Meanings - DENTATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.

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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• CILIATE; CILIATED
  Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• DENTATE-SINUATE
  Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.
• TOOTHING
  Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of
• TOOTHBACK
  Any notodontian.
• DENTATELY
  In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.
• TOOTHBILL
  A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• TOOTHED
  Having marginal projecting points; dentate. Toothed whale , any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. -- Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on
• DENTATE; DENTATED
  Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.
• TOOTHPICKER
  A toothpick. Shak.
• DENTATE-CILIATE
  Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.
• TOOTH
  One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally
• TOOTHPICK
  A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
• TOOTHDRAWER
  One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.
• TOOTHY
  Toothed; with teeth. Croxall.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• LATIDENTATE
  Broad-toothed.
• MULTIDENTATE
  Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CONCILIATIVE
  Conciliatory. Coleridge.
• CONCILIATORY
  Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• RECONCILIATORY
  Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.
• DOMICILIATE
  1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile. 2. To domesticate. Pownall.
• ANGULO-DENTATE
  Angularly toothed, as certain leaves.
• SAW-TOOTHED
  Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
• SQUARROSO-DENTATE
  Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.