Lions' teeth

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• Lions

  The most powerful of all carnivorous animals. Although not now found in Palestine, they must have be...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Teeth

  ·noun ·pl of Tooth. II. Teeth ·vi To breed, or grow, teeth. III. Teeth ·pl of <<Tooth>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• teeth

  A name for the guns in a ship. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Lion's ear

  ·- A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lion's foot

  ·- The <<Edelweiss>>. II. Lion's foot ·- A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which severa...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lion's leaf

  ·- A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which cont...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lion's tail

  ·- A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); — so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spike...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lion's tooth

  ·- ·see <<Leontodon>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Lion's Corner

  West out of Middlesex Street, in Portsoken Ward (L.C.C. List, 1901). Rebuilt for business purposes....

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Lion's Yard

  Out of Whitecross Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Fore teeth

  ·pl of Fore tooth. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hag's teeth

  (See hake's teeth.) Those parts of a matting or pointing interwoven with the rest in an irregular ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hake's teeth

  A phrase applied to some part of the deep soundings in the British Channel; but it is a distinct she...

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• break-teeth words

  Hard words, difficult to pronounce. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• wind in the teeth

  Dead against a ship. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sh-t-ng through the teeth

  Vomiting. Hark ye, friend, have you got a padlock on your a-se, that you sh-te through your teeth? V...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• by the skin of one's teeth

  When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has save...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.