wang-tooth Obs. exc. dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
[wang1.]
A cheek-tooth, molar.
| a 1000 Laws ælfred xlix. 1 Ᵹif hit sie wongtoð, ᵹeselle 1111 scill. to bote. c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 157 Molares, uel genuini, wangteð. c 1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. (MS. Arundel) in Wright Voc. 146 Les messeleres, wange-teȝ [read -teþ; MS. Cambr. wangeteth]. 1382 Wyclif Judg. xv. 19 And so the Lord opnede a woong tooth [1388 wang tooth; Vulg. molarem dentem] in the cheek boon of the asse. c 1386 Chaucer Monk's T. 54 And of this asses cheke, that was dreye, Out of a wang tooth sprang anon a welle. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxiii. 191 He..bete oute my wang-teþ. 1483 Cath. Angl. 406/1 A Waynge tothe [v.r. Vange tothe], genuinus, maxillaris. 1576 Turberv. Venerie 182 Take them and cut away their nether Iawe wherein there wang teeth be set. 1607 Markham Cavel. i. (1617) 79 His two tushes of his nether chappe, and the two wongge teeth of the same next to the tushes. 1659 Somner Dict. s.v. Wang, That old rime: And in witness that this is sooth, I bite the wax with my wang tooth. 1674 Ray N.C. Words s.v., The Wang-tooth; the Jaw-tooth. |