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o lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak. He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged. J. Webster.

Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

To fashion. [Obs.] To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton.

w made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.] He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

A trifle. [Low] Hudibras.

Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

The snowy owl.

The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. Cowell.

Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.] So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.

Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change. [Obs.] Tooker.

In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty.

Swinish; brutal; cruel. In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak.

ee snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.