dentist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.

   It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

2. 2
   noun

   a person qualified to practice dentistry

3. 3
   noun

   Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.

Etymology

Borrowed from French dentiste.