Word Meanings - EYETOOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing.
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- TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - KNOWINGLY
1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak. - KNOWINGNESS
The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness. - UPPERMOST
Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift. - KNOW-NOTHING
A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The - ACUTE-ANGLED
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. - TOOTHSHELL
Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium. - KNOWING
1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. - ACUTE
Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp- - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - UPPERTENDOM
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. - 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. - KNOWABLENESS
The state or quality of being knowable. Locke. - 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 - KNOWER
One who knows. Shak. - TEETH
pl. of Tooth. - KNOWLECHING
Knowledge. Chaucer. - BECOMED
Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak. - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - FOREKNOWER
One who foreknows. - ACKNOWLEDGE
1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own - UNTOOTH
To take out the teeth of. Cowper. - BEKNOW
To confess; to acknowledge. Chaucer. - UNKNOW
1. To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. 2. To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of. - PERACUTE
Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - UNKNOWLEDGED
Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.