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noun

Fang n.

1.

(Zool.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. "Since I am a dog, beware my fangs."

2.

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. "The protuberant fangs of the yucca."

3.

(Anat.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.

4.

(Mining) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.

5.

(Mech.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

6.

(Naut.)

(a)

The valve of a pump box.

(b)

A bend or loop of a rope.

In a fang, fast entangled.

To lose the fang, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence:

To fang a pump, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. (Scot.)

verb

Fang v. t.

1.

To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. (Obs.) "He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged."

2.

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. "Chariots fanged with scythes."

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"Fang" Quotes from Famous Books

... unexpectedly, the coyote changed ends, and came up facing me. I could not put on brakes quickly enough and skidded almost into him. He sprang at my throat. As he launched upward I glimpsed his flaming eyes and wide-open, fang-filled mouth. I do not know what saved me; whether my desperate effort to reverse succeeded, whether I dodged, or whether the restraining trap chain thwarted him. As it was, his teeth grazed my face, leaving deep, red scars across my chin.... His was the handsomest ...

— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

... black cassock, with a knotted rope to confine it at the midriff, and around his thick bare neck was a string of black beads, holding a gold and ebony crucifix, pendent in the water. The eyes of the one with half a body had been picked out by the gulls, but he still possessed a fang-like tusk, sticking through a hare-lip under a fringe of wiry mustache, which gave me a tolerable correct idea of his temper even without seeing his eyes. The truck and shivered stump of the main-top-mast, ...

— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

... I am off the fang. I can make nothing of 'Waverley' to-day; I'll awa' to Marjorie. Come wi' me, Maida, you thief." The great creature rose slowly, and the pair were off, Scott taking a maud (a plaid) with him. "White as a frosted plum-cake, by jingo!" said he, when he got ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various

... treat— an' her nose has been tryin' for some years past to kiss her chin, w'ich it would 'ave managed long ago, too, but for a tooth she's got in the upper jaw. She's on'y got one; but, my, that is a fang! so loose that you'd expect it to be blowed out every time she coughs. It's a reg'lar grinder an' cutter an' stabber all in one; an' the way it works— sometimes in the mouth, sometimes outside the lip, now an' then straight out like ...

— The Garret and the Garden • R.M. Ballantyne

... Jerusalem; but gold and good deeds will still do as much or more than ever. Had Julian Avenel had but a score or two more men this morning, Sir John Foster had not missed a worse welcome. I say, confiscating the monk's revenues is drawing his fang-teeth." ...

— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

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