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

See Examples For:

teth

"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.

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

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 Singer, Samuel Weller

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 Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)

The Wolfe deuoureth and ea- teth of his praie all in feare, and therefore oftentymes he ca- steth his looke, to be safe from perill and daunger.

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