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Dogtooth

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dog⋅tooth

  [dawg-tooth, dog-]
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–noun
1. Also, dog tooth. a canine tooth.
2. Architecture. any of a series of small pyramidal ornaments, usually formed by a radiating arrangement of four sculptured leaves, set close together in a concave molding, used esp. in England in the 13th century.
Origin:
1545–55; dog + tooth
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dog·tooth   (dôg'tōōth', dŏg'-)   


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n.  

  1. A canine tooth; an eyetooth.

  2. Architecture A medieval ornament consisting of four leaflike projections radiating from a raised center.

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