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A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.

See 2d Tusk, n., 2.

Furnished with tusks. The tusked boar out of the wood. Milton.

An elephant having large tusks.

Having tusks. "The scar indented by the tusky oar." Dryden.

sa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

To chew with force and noise; to craunch. And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron.

), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

oboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

nd several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

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. Shak.

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

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

s of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.

The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

ephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.