teth

American  

[tet, tes] / tɛt, tɛs /

noun

1. the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.

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teth British  

/ tɛt, tɛs /

noun

1. the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ט) transliterated as t and pronounced more or less like English t with pharyngeal articulation

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Etymology

Origin of teth

From Hebrew

Example Sentences

He must be careful, also, not to expectorate across the table, 'ne at the borde ye shall no naylis pare ne pyke your teth with knyf.'

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.

Thei are diuers sortes of sentences, one exhor- teth, an other diswadeth, some onely sheweth: there is a sen- tence simple, compounde, profitable, true, & soche like.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard

Thy teth also ne pike not with the knyff ...

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

"Notiss I will not klene my teth agen onles I get a nikle a weak Malcolm Dale."

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Smith, Harriet L.

With þe neue he robert sette Biforn þe teth a dint ful strong.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown