noun. An elongated pointed tooth, usually one of a pair, extending outside of the mouth in certain animals such as the walrus, elephant, or wild boar.

noun. A long projecting tooth or toothlike part.

transitive & intransitive verb . To gore or dig with the tusks or a tusk.

noun. undefined

noun. A fish: same as torsk.

To gore with the tusks.

To move, turn, or thrust with the tusks.

To gnash the teeth, as a boar; show the tusks.

noun. A tuft; a bush.

noun. A long pointed tooth; especially, a tooth long enough to protrude from the lips when the mouth is closed.

noun. A sharp projecting point resembling in some degree a tusk or tooth of an animal.

noun. In locks, a sharp projecting point or claw which forms a means of attachment or engagement.

noun. In carpentry, a bevel shoulder on a tenon to give it additional strength.

noun. A tooth-shell. See Dentaliidæ, and cut under tooth-shell.

noun. Same as torsk.

noun. One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.

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

noun. 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.

intransitive verb. To bare or gnash the teeth.

noun. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.

noun. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.

verb. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

verb. To bare or gnash the teeth.

noun. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

noun. a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog

verb. remove the tusks of animals

verb. stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

"Though seemingly rigid and hard, the tusk is like a membrane with an extremely sensitive surface, capable of detecting changes in water temperature, pressure, and particle gradients."

servant tusk  

tusk tenon  tusked  tusker  tusklike  tusky  

dentin  dentine  pierce  remove  take  

Rusk  brusque  busk  cusk  dusk  

blubber  boar  cheekbone  claw  fang  

baby tooth  bicuspid  bucktooth  canine  crown  

torsk  tusk-shell  

tusked  tusking  tusks