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Word Meanings - TOOTHDRAWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • BUSINESS
    The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
  • EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
    Capable of being extracted.
  • EXTRACT
    1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
  • TEETH
    pl. of Tooth.
  • BUSINESSLIKE
    In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • DENTIST
    One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
  • EXTRACTIFORM
    Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.
  • EXTRACTIVE
    1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan. 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting
  • DENTISTRY
    The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.
  • EXTRACTION
    1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth;
  • DENTISTIC; DENTISTICAL
    Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists.
  • EXTRACTOR
    One who, or that which, extracts; as: A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
  • TEETHING
    The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
  • GOULARDS EXTRACT
    An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
  • HYDRO-EXTRACTOR
    An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

 

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