These are the meanings of the letters HOTTENTOT when you unscramble them.
- Tenth (a.)
Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
- Tenth (a.)
Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
- Tenth (n.)
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
- Tenth (n.)
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
- Tenth (n.)
The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
- Tenth (n.)
The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
- Tenth (n.)
The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
- Tenth (n.)
The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
- Tooth (n.)
A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
- Tooth (n.)
An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant
- Tooth (n.)
Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
- Tooth (n.)
Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
- Tooth (n.)
Fig.: Taste; palate.
- Tooth (n.)
One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
- Tooth (n.)
one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
- Tooth (n.)
One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
- Tooth (v. t.)
To furnish with teeth.
- Tooth (v. t.)
To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
- Tooth (v. t.)
To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.