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▪ I. † teething, n. Obs. rare—1.|ˈtiːθɪŋ|
[f. teeth, pl. of tooth n. + -ing1.]
Material on which to exercise the teeth; provisions, food.
1673F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 210 By such time as he and his are fitted with Clothing, Teething and Tooling, his money is gone.
▪ II. teething, vbl. n.|ˈtiːðɪŋ|
[f. teethe v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb teethe; the process of developing teeth, dentition; usually applied to the cutting of the milk-teeth.
1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet iv. in Aliments, etc. (1736) 414 When the Symptoms of Teething appear, the Gums ought to be relax'd by softening Ointment. 1872L. P. Meredith Teeth (1878) 31 Fatal diseases incident to early childhood..not caused by the irritation of teething.
2. The pointing of the interstices between stones in a wall, or slates on a roof, with lime or mortar.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm I. 198 The putting them [slates] on, including dressing, holing, pins for the slates, and nails for the laths, cost only 15s., and with moss for bedding 1s.,..and lime for teething 3s., 22s. the rood.
3. attrib. and Comb., as teething fever, teething period, teething rash, teething stage (fig.); teething bannock, teething plaster, an oatmeal cake given in Scotland to a child beginning to cut its teeth; teething powder, a medicinal powder given to children when teething; teething ring, a small ring or disc for an infant to bite on while teething; teething troubles fig., problems arising in the early stages of an enterprise.
1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 400 A severe teething fever deprived him of the use of his right leg. 1866W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire, Teething-bannock. 1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. App. 102 Pritchard's teething and fever powders, for..children cutting their teeth. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It xv. 125 Soothing-syrup! Teething-rings! 1881W. Gregor Folk-lore 9 The teethin bannock..was baked of oatmeal and butter or cream. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 586 ‘Red gum’, ‘teething rash’, usually regarded as a sweat rash. 1937Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLI. 917 The dynamometer had now been in use for eight or nine months. It was not quite free from small ‘teething’ troubles. 1954‘N. Shute’ Slide Rule iv. 92 These were the inevitable teething troubles of any very large aircraft. 1959Observer 19 Apr. 5/3 They speculated on whether Britain should jump the ‘teething’ stage of supersonic airliners and concentrate on producing an adult machine in twenty years' time. 1967Guardian 21 Sept. 3/4 It was highly likely that many ‘corner shops’ still contained stocks of teething powders containing mercury. 1980‘J. Bell’ Question of Inheritance i. 18 His favourite toy, the bone ring..a teething ring, with three little bells on it. 1980Bookseller 21 June 2560/1 TBL Book Service was still involved in teething troubles and costs. |
