Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tooth in the fore part of the month; any tooth socketed in the premaxillary bone; an incisor.

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Examples

  • They carry death in the fore-tooth, and that is not good -- for they are so small.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The single exception had the left fore-tooth of his upper jaw extracted, and I therefore concluded that he belonged to a different tribe.

    Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

  • At night comes my wife not well from my father's, having had a fore-tooth drawn out to-day, which do trouble me, and the more because I am now in the greatest of all my dirt.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • At night comes my wife not well from my father's, having had a fore-tooth drawn out to-day, which do trouble me, and the more because I am now in the greatest of all my dirt.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • At night comes my wife not well from my father's, having had a fore-tooth drawn out to-day, which do trouble me, and the more because I am now in the greatest of all my dirt.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • At night comes my wife not well from my father's, having had a fore-tooth drawn out to-day, which do trouble me, and the more because I am now in the greatest of all my dirt.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661

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