a. [f. TOOTH sb. or v. + -ED.] Furnished with teeth (or a tooth).
1. lit. of an animal: Having teeth; with defining words, Having teeth of a specified kind.
13[?]. K. Alis., 5392 (Bodl. MS.). Hij weren toþed als a man.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton), II. xlv. (1859), 51. Somme of them were tothyd as boores.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 1117. Had I been tooth’d like him, I must confesse, With kissing him I should haue kild him first.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. The teeth are wanting in some, others are toothed.
1860. Wraxall, Life in Sea, i. 3. The Cetacea are subdivided into the ‘toothless’ and the ‘toothed.’
b. fig. cf. TOOTH sb. 2. rare.
1584. B. R., trans. Herodotus, I. 63. The basest sorte of yonkers that were not so deyntely toothed.
c. fig. ‘Biting,’ pungent, corrosive. ? Obs.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] lxi. 175. Dab it with aqua fortis, toothed waters, and corroding Minerals.
1675. V. Alsop, Anti-Sozzo, ii. 65. Those Severe and Toothed Satyrs wherewith he has Torn and Lasht poor Honest Men.
2. Having natural projections or processes like teeth; dentate; indented; jagged: esp. of leaves or other parts of plants; also of the bill of birds, the margin of shells, etc.
Toothed vertebra, a name for the axis vertebra, from its tooth or odontoid process (Syd. Soc. Lex., s.v. Vertebra).
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 383. Perdix … took a plate of iren … and made it i-toþed as a rugge boon of a fische.
1610. Shaks., Temp., IV. i. 180. Through Tooth’d briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 679. Leaves smooth, notched and acutely toothed.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., xiii. § 3 (1819), 221. The middle claw of the heron and cormorant is toothed and notched like a saw.
1859. W. S. Coleman, Woodlands (1866), 27. The leaves … doubly toothed at the edges.
1895. Oracle Encycl., I. 594/2. The wing-margin is denticulated or irregularly toothed.
3. Made or fitted artificially with teeth or tooth-like projections: spec. of a wheel, cogged.
Toothed ornament (Arch.) = tooth-ornament: TOOTH sb. 9.
1387. [see 2].
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 37. A barlie rake toothed.
1577. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., 42. They holde their leaft hande full of Corne, and … with toothed Syckles they cut it.
1641. Milton, Animadv., i. Wks. 1851, III. 191. A toothlesse Satyr is as improper as a toothed sleekstone, and as bullish.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), I. 92/2. The toothed wheel D, fixed on the axis EF.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, I. 163. The ribs were often enriched by the toothed ornament.
1834–6. Barlow, in Encycl. Metro. (1845), VIII. 101/2. A toothed wheel is generally understood to be one in which the teeth are cast or cut on the wheel itself, forming one whole.
1862. Rickman, Goth. Archit., 294. An ornament almost as peculiar to the Decorated style as the toothed ornament [is] to the Early English.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 20 June, 4/2. The protest … against the use of the spring toothed-trap.
4. Comb., as toothed-billed (= TOOTH-BILLED); also freq. as the second element in parasynthetic combinations, as buck-toothed, sweet-toothed.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 136. A graffynge sawe … very thyn and thycke tothed.
1670. Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1694), 64. They are smooth and even toothed.
1706. S. Sewall, Diary, 25 Dec. I bought me a great Tooth’d Comb at Dwight’s.
1841. Penny Cycl., XXI. 416/2. The … tribe of Dentirostres, or toothed-billed birds.
