Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The nodding bur-marigold or water-agrimony, Bidens cernua, translating the genus name.

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Examples

  • When it parted from each successive station, with a shock and a shriek as if it had had a double-tooth drawn, the old gentleman shook his head, and I shook mine.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • As if the great name of the Creator of Heaven and earth could be made more solemn by a knuckle-bone, or a double-tooth, or a finger-nail, of

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • It must have been that old double-tooth at the back on the left lower side, for I remember ----

    The Eyes of Asia Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • And now, in the sudden relief and wiping of faces, everybody on board seems to have had a prodigious double-tooth out, and to be this very instant free of the dentist's hands.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • When the missile was extracted, however, it turned out to be a huge human double-tooth.

    Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes 1886

  • To them presently came Dr. Jedd, as lively and business-like as if Miss Halliday's case had been a question of taking out a double-tooth.

    Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

  • As if the great name of the Creator of Heaven and earth could be made more solemn by a knuckle-bone, or a double-tooth, or a finger-nail, of Dunstan!

    A child`s history of England 1852

  • As if the great name of the Creator of Heaven and earth could be made more solemn by a knuckle-bone, or a double-tooth, or a finger-nail, of

    A Child's History of England Charles Dickens 1841

  • And now, in the sudden relief and wiping of faces, everybody on board seems to have had a prodigious double-tooth out, and to be this very instant free of the Dentist's hands.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • 'You won't say more, I see,' said Fledgeby, looking at him as if he would like to try the effect of extracting a double-tooth or two, 'and so it's of no use my putting it to you.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

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  • "The nodding bur-marigold or water-agrimony, Bidens cernua, translating the genus name."

    --Cent. Dict.

    August 24, 2012