Fang

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  • noun. Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects its poison.
  • noun. Any of the canine teeth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
  • noun. A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth.
  • noun. The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
  • noun. A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.
  • 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.
  • noun. A valve in a pump; the water-seal of a pump.
  • noun. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  • noun. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  • noun. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
  • noun. Specifically — A claw or talon; a falcula.
  • noun. A fin.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The socketed part of a tooth, as that by which the tooth holds on to the jaw. There may be one or several fangs.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The tang of a tool.
  • noun. Any projecting prong in a lock or a bolt.
  • noun. In mining: A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, for conveying air.
  • noun. plural Cage-shuts.
  • noun. undefined
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
  • transitive verb. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
  • noun. The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
  • noun. A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The valve of a pump box.
  • noun. A bend or loop of a rope.
  • noun. fast entangled.
  • noun. said of a pump when the water has gone out.
  • noun. to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or (in snakes) for injecting venom.
  • verb. to strike or attack with the fangs
  • verb. To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
  • verb. To take; receive with assent; accept.
  • verb. To receive with hospitality; welcome.
  • verb. To receive.
  • verb. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
  • noun. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  • noun. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  • noun. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
  • noun. A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
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    Chang  Hang  Kuomintang  Lang  Lange  
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    belly  claw  dagger  dart  gash  
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    tooth