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                    "description": "dens (noun M) : (\n* Gen. plur. usually dentium, but dentum is approved by Varr. L. L. 7, 38, 67), m. root in Sanscr. dantas, Gr. ὀδούς, Goth. tunthus, Germ. Zahn, and Engl. tooth; cf. edo, Engl. eat, a tooth.\n* Prop.: cui auro dentes juncti escunt, XII. Tab. 10, 9; Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160 sq.; Cels. 8, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 54; Isid. 11, 1, 52: primores,the front teeth,Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 68; also called adversi acuti,Cic. N. D. 2, 54: praecisores,Isid. 11, 1, 52; and in beasts: rapaces,Veg. Vet. 6, 1, 1: canini,the canine teeth, eye-teeth,Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 3; Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160; in horses: columellares,Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 2; Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160: maxillares,the jaw-teeth, grinders,Cels. 8, 1; called also genuini, Cic. l. l.; and molares, Isid. l. l. et saep.: dentes scalpere,Plin. 30, 4, 9, § 27: fricare,id. ib.: scariphare,id. 28, 11, 49, § 179; cf. id. 30, 3, 8, § 21: mobiles confirmare,id. 28, 11, 49, § 178; cf.: mobiles stabilire,id. 32, 7, 26, § 80: eximere,to extract,Cels. 6, 9; so, evellere,Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 25: extrahere,id. 32, 7, 26, § 79: excutere,Juv. 16, 10 et saep.: dens Indus,i. e. the elephant's,Ov. M. 8, 288; hence for ivory, id. ib. 11, 167; also called dens Libycus,Prop. 2, 31, 12 (3, 29, 12 M.): Numida,Ov. P. 4, 9, 28; and Erythraeus,Mart. 13, 100.\n* Prov.\n* Trop., the tooth of envy, envy, ill-will: more hominum invident, in conviviis rodunt, in circulis vellicant: non illo inimico sed hoc maledico dente carpunt,Cic. Balb. 26: invidus,Hor. Od. 4, 3, 16: ater,id. Epod. 6, 15.\n* Meton. of things resembling a tooth, a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, etc.: aratri,Col. 2, 4, 6; Verg. G. 2, 423 al.; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 135 Müll.: (irpicis) acc. to id. ib.: pectinis,id. ib.; Tib. 1, 9, 68: (clavi) id. 1, 2, 18: serrae,Plin. 16, 43, 83, § 227; Vitr. 1, 5; cf. Ov. M. 8, 246, and 6, 58; hence, in architecture, the walls indentated like the teeth of a saw, which connected the two main walls,Vitr. 6, 11: forcipis,id. 10, 2: (ancorae) Verg. A. 6, 3; for falx (vinitorum),the pruning-hook,id. G. 2, 406 et saep.\n* Dentem pro dente, tooth for tooth, Vulg. Matt. 5, 38.\n* Of a destroying power: leti sub dentibus ipsis,Lucr. 1, 852; cf. of time: vitiataque dentibus aevi consumere omnia,Ov. M. 15, 235; and of water: aqua dentes habet,Petr. 42; of malice: malignitatis dentes vitare,Val. Max. 4, 7, extr. 2."
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