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Toothache   Listen
noun
Toothache  n.  (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste.
Toothache tree. (Bot.)
(a)
The prickly ash.
(b)
A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa).





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"Toothache" Quotes from Famous Books



... over-jealous of their own professional dignity. Nevertheless, these crusty graduates were technically right in excluding Dr. Dolliver from their fraternity. He had never received the degree of any medical school, nor (save it might be for the cure of a toothache, or a child's rash, or a whitlow on a seamstress's finger, or some such trifling malady) had he ever been even a practitioner of the awful science with which his popular designation connected him. Our old friend, in short, even at his highest ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... is better—Cousin Martha's worse—father's just the same—Looloo's dancing the floor with a toothache." Hen recited this in the manner of a chant, and added, as she ushered her Washington Street cousin into the little parlor: "But for that, we're all doing ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... then. I should have told her. Instead, I took my broken hat and jammed it on my head with a force that made the lump she had noticed jump like a toothache, and went out. ...
— Sight Unseen • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... my own room, and sat down to write a little note to my neighbor. I'm sure, that showed how much I liked her, if anything could, for I'd rather do a sum in compound fractions, or a French exercise, than write a note. It quite gives me the toothache; but at last I wrote something very pretty, as, I'm sure, you will say when I repeat it to you. ...
— Neighbor Nelly Socks - Being the Sixth and Last Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow
... left off at the end of a line, and finished the first letters of the word toothache, leaving "toot" as his division, and taking a fresh dip of ink ready for ...
— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn


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