Word Meanings - TOOTHDRAWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to TOOTHDRAWER)

• 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.