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teethe, v.|tiːð|
Forms: 5 teth, 8–9 teeth, 9 teethe.
[f. teeth, pl. of tooth: there might also have been an OE. *téðan from *tanþjan; cf. bleed, feed.]
1. intr. To develop or ‘cut’ teeth. (Now only in pr. pple. and vbl. n.: see teething.)
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) vi. lf. 17 b, Þei teth twyse in þe yere whan þei be wolfes [v.r. whelpes]. 1732[see teething vbl. n. 1]. 1755Johnson, Teeth v. n., to breed teeth; to be at the time of dentition. 1865Princess Alice Mem. 11 Mar. (1884) 90 Victoria is teething, which makes her pale and poorly.
2. trans. To furnish with teeth, to set teeth in. Chiefly dial.
1775in Ash. 1794Burns Song, O merry hae I been teethin' a heckle, And merry hae I been shapin' a spoon. 1832W. A. Foster in Minstrelsy Merse (1893) 153 Out through the mark the arrows flew, They teethed it like a harrow. 1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End 424 The cliffs that teeth the rift look as if they would shut into each other.
3. To ‘point’ (a wall, etc.) with lime or mortar.
1794St. Acc. Scot. XI. 482 Stone walls teethed with lime.
Hence ˈteething ppl. a. (in sense 1).
1832Marryat N. Forster xxiv, The teething infant. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 761 Looseness of the bowels..common in teething infants. |