inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form

a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth

a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth

an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets

One of a set of hard, bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates, usually rooted in sockets and typically composed of a core of soft pulp surrounded by a layer of hard dentin that is coated with cementum or enamel at the crown and used for biting or chewing food or as a means of attack or defense, A projecting part resembling a tooth in shape or function, as on a comb, gear, or saw, Effective means of enforcement; muscle, intransitive verb_ To furnish (a tool, for example) with teeth, To become interlocked; mesh, To make a jagged edge on, transitive verb_ To furnish with teeth, To indent; to jag,

An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit, An opening or cavity into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else, A chuck or holder on the end of a drill-spindle having a taper-hole to receive the corresponding taper-shank of the drill or of another socket, transitive verb_ To furnish with or insert into a socket

To pass (flour, for example) through a sieve, noun_ A bar made of wood or metal that slides into a socket and is used to fasten doors and gates, A metallic pin or rod, used to hold objects together It generally has screwthreads cut at one end, and sometimes at both, to receive a nut

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal, A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit, The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens, intransitive verb_ To provide living quarters for; lodge, To fit (something) into a socket or mortise, To take shelter

An object, such as a cork or a wad of cloth, used to fill a hole tightly; a stopper, A fitting, commonly with two metal prongs for insertion in a fixed socket, used to connect an appliance to a power supply, A spigot driven into place, as in a barrel, in contradistinction to one screwed in, intransitive verb_ To hit with a bullet; shoot, To become stopped up or obstructed, To fill (a hole) tightly with or as if with a plug; stop up

In the United States, a cent, Money in general_ as, it cost a pretty penny (a good round sum); to turn an honest penny, a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit, verb_ slang To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door, electronics To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket, adjective_ Denoting the weight in pounds for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails, Worth or costing one penny