- An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt;
as, tush, tush! do not speak of it. - A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to
certain teeth of horses.
- See Canine tooth, under Canine. - An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of
pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.
- Premolar tooth - Alt. of Bicuspidate - One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene
between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw.
See Tooth, n.
- A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a
tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for
burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It
includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells.
Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
- Arctic whale - Arctic white whale - Marine creature found among sonar ... whale? - Which species of whale has a long tusk? - An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet
long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or
tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is
called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two
horns are developed, side by side.