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 i. 1

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.