Another difference in this type of shield is the addition of ornamental toothlike tracings. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Through the second portcullis she darted, entering the chamber with the strange, toothlike pillars. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Winter Night]
Now she was in the dark, narrower chamber where the oddly shaped, toothlike pillars slanted toward her with razor sharpness. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Winter Night]
Description size: 2.5 - 3.5 mm shape: slender colour: dark brown recognition: six toothlike projections along each side of the prothorax. From Wordnik.com. [7. Important pests in storage] Reference
The fine, toothlike scales of shark skin are the most effective tool for breaking the compartments that separate the compound and the enzyme. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - The book meme.] Reference
Tas walked beneath that portcullis into a second hallway, narrower than the first - only about ten feet wide - with the same strange, toothlike columns on either side. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Winter Night]
The central arch led through a high-domed passage exiting into the first courtyard of the compound, a 190-acre world surrounded by a battle wall over one and a half miles in circumference and capped with imposing toothlike merlons. From Wordnik.com. [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference
Under the eyes were toothlike bars forming a grate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
Their faint fragrance rather suggests a tulip; and as for the bulb, which in some of the lily-kin has toothlike scales, it is in this case a smooth, egg-shaped corm, producing little round offsets from its base. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
And now came forth the grapnels -- two five-armed anchors, with flukes, sharply curved and tapering to an oblique, toothlike end, the hooks with which the engineer was going to fish from the Great Eastern for a take worth, with all its belongings, more than a million. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition] Reference
Oddly, as one reader pointed out, this is also what John McCain did during the town hall style debate bidentate, an adjective meaning having two teeth or toothlike parts from the Latin bi - (two) + dens (tooth) palinode, a noun referring to a poem in which the writer retracts something said in a previous poem. From Wordnik.com. [Pensito Review] Reference
The: Atlas Vertebra of Man. s, rudiment of neural spine; d. tubercular process; p, capitular process; a, articular surface for skull; hy, plate of bone holding the place of a cranium, and articulating with the odontoid process of the axis vertebra. the axis, and provided with a toothlike (odontoid) 17 process, round which, as round a pivot, the "atlas" works. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Frog] Reference
As the 1793 Liberty Caps have beaded borders, while the Liberty Caps dated from 1794 to ‘96 have dentils raised toothlike devices at the borders, some guides, including the PCGS registry, define the 1793 Liberty Caps as a one-year type and the 1794-96 Liberty Caps as another separate type. From Wordnik.com. [All-Time Most Complete Collection of Early Large Cents to be Auctioned: Incredible Accomplishment of Dan Holmes : Coin Collecting News] Reference
As the 1793 Liberty Caps have beaded borders, while the Liberty Caps dated from 1794 to ‘96 have dentils (raised toothlike devices at the borders), some guides, including the PCGS registry, define the 1793 Liberty Caps as a one-year type and the 1794-96 Liberty Caps as another separate type. From Wordnik.com. [All-Time Most Complete Collection of Early Large Cents to be Auctioned: Incredible Accomplishment of Dan Holmes : Coin Collecting News] Reference
2-mile-long accelerator to speed up electrons and then send them wiggling through a toothlike series of undulating magnets. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
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