† gag-tooth Obs.
Also 7 gagged-tooth.
[Cf. gag v.2 3; also gab v.3, gam-tooth, gang-tooth, gap-tooth, gat-tooth.]
A projecting or prominent tooth.
| 1585 Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 29 Dentes exerti, Gag teeth or teeth standing out. 1593 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 225 Take heede of the man whom Nature hath marked with a gag-tooth; Art furnished with a gag-tongue; and Exercise armed with a gag-penne; as cruell and murdrous weapons, as euer drewe blood. 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. ii. 316 A fellow..whose muse was armed with a gagtooth. 1679 Burnet Hist. Ref. I. ii. 41 She was ill-shaped and ugly; had Six Fingers, a Gag-tooth. 1680 Lond. Gaz. No. 1547/4 One Richard Taffin..[with] a gag'd Tooth on the upper Jaw. |