Word Meanings - TOOTHACHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass , a kind of grass having a very pungent taste. -- Toothache tree. The prickly ash. A shrub of the genus Aralia .

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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• 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
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• TOOTHBACK
  Any notodontian.
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• 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
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• PRICKLY
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DOOB GRASS
  A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• QUITCH GRASS
  A perennial grass having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. (more info) from