Toothache

  • 11toothache —    The following *charm was collected by M. A. Denham in the north of England in the 1840s (Denham, 1895: 9 10):    Peter was sitting on a marble stone    And Jesus passed by    Peter said, My Lord! My God!    How my tooth doth ache!    Jesus… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 12Toothache grass — Toothache Tooth ache , n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. [1913 Webster] {Toothache grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Ctenium Americanum}) having a very pungent taste. {Toothache tree}. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13Toothache tree — Toothache Tooth ache , n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. [1913 Webster] {Toothache grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Ctenium Americanum}) having a very pungent taste. {Toothache tree}. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 14Toothache Tree — may refer to one of several American trees: * Aralia spinosa [cite web | url=http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/pdf/shrubs/Aralia%20spinosa.pdf | publisher=International Institute of Tropical Forestry | title=Aralia spinosa | author=Kristina… …

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  • 15Toothache (film) — Infobox Film name = Toothache director =Abbas Kiarostami writer =Abbas Kiarostami starring = producer = released =Iran 1983 language =Persian runtime =24 min. imdb id =0085641 distributor =Toothache ( fa. Dandan Dard) is a 1983 Iranian film… …

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  • 16toothache tree — Prickly ash Prickly ash (Bot.), 1. A prickly shrub ({Xanthoxylum Americanum}) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves; also called {toothache tree}. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is {Xanthoxylum… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 17toothache tree poison — tirmal (a fish poison made form the seeds of the toothache tree, Xanthoxylum alatum (Rutaceae)(India)) …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 18toothache tree — /ˈtuθeɪk tri/ (say toohthayk tree) noun the eastern North American prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, the bark of which is used as a remedy for toothache …

  • 19toothache — noun Date: 14th century pain in or about a tooth …

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  • 20toothache — toothachy, adj. /toohth ayk /, n. a pain in or about a tooth. [bef. 1050; ME tothache, OE tothaece, tothece. See TOOTH, ACHE] * * * …

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