niho
1. (noun) tooth, tusk - see below for the various types of teeth.
Ka pātukituki au i te whatitoka. He wahine nāna i huaki mai, ka titiro mai ki a au e tū ana, e mate ana, e hūwiniwini ana, e ākina ana e te marangai; hūkeke noa ana aku niho, ko tōku tinana katoa matangurunguru ana i te mātaotao (TWMNT 20/4/1875:87). / I knocked on the door. It was a woman that opened it and she looked at me standing there in trouble, chilled to the bone, lashed by the rain with my teeth chattering and my whole body numb from the cold.
See also niho kaiū, niho kata, niho kēhua, niho pū, niho pūrākau, niho rei, niho tapahi, niho tāpiki, niho tāpiri, niho tunga, niho waha, niho hawa, niho kai waiū
2. (noun) thorn.
Engari te akakiore, kāore he niho o tērā (W 1971:221). / But the New Zealand jasmine, that has no thorns.
3. (noun) edge (of a tool or weapon).
He puruhia ēnei toki, kāore he niho (Tr 1874:46). / These adzes are blunt, they have no edge.
