Fang

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects its poison.
  • n. Any of the canine teeth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
  • n. A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth.
  • n. The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
  • n. A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or (in snakes) for injecting venom.
  • v. to strike or attack with the fangs
  • v. To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
  • v. To take; receive with assent; accept.
  • v. To receive with hospitality; welcome.
  • v. To receive.
  • v. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
  • n. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  • n. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  • n. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
  • n. A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
  • n. Cage-shuts.
  • n. The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
  • v. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
  • n. The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
  • n. A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
  • n. 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.
  • n.
  • n. The valve of a pump box.
  • n. A bend or loop of a rope.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To catch; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
  • To take; receive with assent, accept.
  • To receive with hospitality, as a guest; welcome.
  • To receive (a thing given or imposed).
  • To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
  • To seize; lay hold.
  • n. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  • n. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  • n. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
  • n. Specifically — A claw or talon; a falcula.
  • n. A fin.
  • n. A long, sharp tooth, as an organ of prehension, as the canine tooth of a dog, or the tusk of a boar or an elephant.
  • n. The socketed part of a tooth, as that by which the tooth holds on to the jaw. There may be one or several fangs.
  • n. The poison-or venom-tooth of a serpent, through which venom is injected into a wound made by it. See venom, and cut under poison-fang.
  • n. The pointed and curved second joint of the falx or chelicera of a spider, pierced at the tip by the opening of the poison-duct. The term is sometimes applied to the whole chelicera. See cuts under chelicera and falx.
  • n. The tang of a tool.
  • n. Any projecting prong in a lock or a bolt.
  • n. In mining: A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, for conveying air.
  • n. plural Cage-shuts.
  • n.
  • n. A valve in a pump; the water-seal of a pump.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
  • n. hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
  • n. a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
  • n. canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tooth    bantoid language    Bantu    dogtooth    canine    eyetooth    canine tooth    cuspid   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    tooth   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    catch    gripe    clutch   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chang    Hang    Kuomintang    Lang    Lange    Liang    Nanchang    Pyongyang    Shenyang    Tang   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    claw    talon    tusk    tooth    snout    venom    maw    gash    tentacle    dagger