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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

teth

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 Richard Rainolde

Now I shall sorrowfully sithien from the. depart from thee; nu beoth thine teth atru.

From The Departing Soul's Address to the Body A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem, Discovered Among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral by Samuel Weller Singer

And he anon the teth outdrouh, And sette his Oxen in a plouh, 3720 With which he brak a piece of lond And sieu hem with his oghne hond.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

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

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

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 P. B. M. Allan

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