one of the hard bodies attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the pretension and mastication of food, and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel; a tooth.

a tooth developed to a great length, usu. one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar; a tusk.

the width of a long cloth as manufactured (before it is cut for any purpose).

a cross-beam of a building, serving as a support for the roof.

any living organism excluding plants, esp. of the lowest organisation as worms, insects.

in gen. an animal.

a kind of soft-bodied, parasitic worm that infects the intestine in humans.