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A tooth (pl.: teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.
"human or animal tooth," from Old English toð (plural teð), from Proto-Germanic *tanthu-… See origin and meaning of tooth.
TOOTH definition: 1. one of the hard, white objects in the mouth that are used for biting and chewing (= crushing…. Learn more.
In mammals usually consisting of dentine coated with cement around the root and with enamel in the exposed part; but in some cases horny, chitinous, or osseous. In some animals, also occurring on other parts, as the tongue or pharynx.
The earliest known use of the verb tooth is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for tooth is from around 1425, in the writing of Edward, Duke of York, magnate. It is also recorded as a noun from the Old English period (pre-1150).
one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
Discovered in Susa in 1902, it including the law that is commonly known as “a tooth for a tooth” (Code Nr. 200). 1600 BCE Edwin Smith Papyrus – a surgical papyrus discovered in 1862.
