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Kindhart
A jocular name for a tooth-drawer; so called from a dentist of
the name in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Kindhart, the dentist, is
mentioned by Rowland in his Letting of Humours—Blood in the
Head-vaine. (1600); and in Rowley's New Wonder.
Mistake me not, Kindhart
He calls you tooth-drawer.
Act. 1.1
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