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Fang   /fæŋ/   Listen
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



... "White Fang" is part dog, part wolf and all brute, living in the frozen north; he gradually comes under the spell of man's companionship, and surrenders all at the last in a fight with a bull dog. Thereafter ...
— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck

... character to start with; and his life had made him sensitively deferent to literary opinion. Therefore, in an evil hour, yielding to Gonzaga's advice, he resolved to submit the Gerusalemme in MS. to four censors—Il Borga, Flaminio de'Nobili, vulpine Speroni with his poisoned fang of pedantry, precise Antoniano with his inquisitorial prudery. They were to pass their several criticisms on the plot, characters, diction, and ethics of the Gerusalemme; Tasso was to entertain and weigh their arguments, reserving the ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

... she knew To mix th' enchanted cup. For whoso drinks it up, Must suffer hideous change To monstrous shapes and strange. One like a boar appears; This his huge form uprears, Mighty in bulk and limb— An Afric lion—grim With claw and fang. Confessed A wolf, this, sore distressed When he would weep, doth howl; And, strangely tame, these prowl The ...
— The Consolation of Philosophy • Boethius

... fang'd] That is, adders with their fangs, or poisonous teeth, undrawn. It has been the practice of mountebanks to boast the efficacy of their antidotes by playing with vipers, but they ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... soon as he was safe away, she threw back the covers and swung to the edge of the cot. At her call Chake, the Nubian, appeared. To him she immediately began to give emphatic directions, repeating some of them over and over vehemently. He bent his fuzzy head listening, his yellow eyeballs showing, his fang-like teeth exposed in a grin of comprehension. When she had finished he nodded, said a few words in his own tongue, and ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al


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