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

This grading of form is not observed in passing from the cuspid to the bicuspid in man.

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

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 same is the case upon the opposite side, except that the cuspid has cusps that have fused together, leaving a small projection upon the mesial side and a rudimentary palatine cusp.

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