cuspid

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She importuned Fred to notice the blood on the cuspid and to imagine the agony surrounding its expulsion from her mouth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

Virginia, whose hair has grown blonde and her tongue sharp, grudgingly comes to watch her husband lose another cuspid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Considering these stages of development, the grading from the cuspid to the bicuspid forms was more gradual in the earlier species than in the later, where the individual teeth have taken on special development.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

The laterals also show three cusps, while the cuspid has two very distinct.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

That small purple ring on the gum of the cuspid in the case first mentioned would eventually have led to the loss of the whole set, if left to work its way unopposed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various