toothache-tree

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOOTHACHE-TREE, noun A shrub of the genus Zanthoxylum. TOOTH'-DRAWER, noun [tooth and draw.] One whose business is to extract teeth with instruments. TOOTH'-DRAWING, noun The act of extracting a tooth; the practice of extracting teeth.
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