Definition of tusk

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Tusk (v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.

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Tusky :: Tusky (a.) Having tusks.
Water Deer :: Water deer () A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks..
Babirussa :: Babirussa (n.) A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved..
Fanged :: Fanged (a.) Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively..
Ivory :: Ivory (n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc..
Tenon :: Tenon (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk..
Tusked :: Tusked (a.) Furnished with tusks.
Tooth :: Tooth (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice..
Tusk :: Tusk (n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth..
Fangless :: Fangless (a.) Destitute of fangs or tusks.
Tusk :: Tusk (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth..
Walrus :: Walrus (n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse..
Elephant :: Elephant (n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
Tusk :: Tusk (v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.
Tush :: Tush (n.) A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses..
Fang :: Fang (v. t.) 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..
Tusk :: Tusk (n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell..
Haaf :: Haaf (n.) The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles..
Tusk-shell :: Tusk-shell (n.) See 2d Tusk, n., 2..
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