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fang

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fang has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

fangv. t. [OE. fangen, fongen, fon (g orig. only in p. p. and imp. tense), AS. f; akin to D. vangen, OHG. fāhan, G. fahen, fangen, Icel. , Sw. f, f, Dan. fange, faae, Goth. fahan, and prob. to E. fair, peace, pact. Cf. Fair, a.].
  •  To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    "He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.  Philips.  [1913 Webster]
fangn. [From Fang, v. t.; cf. AS. fang a taking, booty, G. fang.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "Since I am a dog, beware my fangs."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.  [1913 Webster]
    "The protuberant fangs of the yucca."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The valve of a pump box.  [1913 Webster]
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.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fang, n.
1 a canine tooth, esp. of a dog or wolf.
2 the tooth of a venomous snake, by which poison is injected.
3 the root of a tooth or its prong.
4 Brit. colloq. a person's tooth.

Derivative
fanged adj. (also in comb.). fangless adj.
Etymology
OE f. ON fang f. a Gmc root = to catch

THESAURUS

fang

baby tooth, beesting, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, claws, clutches, cog, comb, crag, crown, cuspid, cutter, dart, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, digits, dogtooth, eyetooth, fangs, fingernails, fingers, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, hands, harrow, hooks, incisor, jag, jaws, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks, milk tooth, mitts, molar, nails, nippers, palm, peak, pecten, peg, permanent tooth, pincers, pivot tooth, pounces, premolar, projection, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, scrivello, snag, snaggle, snaggletooth, snakebite, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, sting, stinger, talons, tang, teeth, tooth, tush, tusk, unguals, ungulae, wisdom tooth

ROGET THESAURUS

fang

Bane

N bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.

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