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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..

Water Deer :: Water deer () A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks..

Elephant :: Elephant (n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.

Elephant :: Elephant (n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and 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..

Bar :: Bar (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed..

Tusk :: Tusk (n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth..

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..

Fangless :: Fangless (a.) Destitute of fangs or tusks.

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..

Haaf :: Haaf (n.) The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles..

Tush :: Tush (n.) A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses..

Xiphius :: Xiphius (n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw..

Tusk :: Tusk (n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell..

Ivory :: Ivory (n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc..

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

Tusk-shell :: Tusk-shell (n.) See 2d Tusk, n., 2..

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..

Razor :: Razor (v. t.) A tusk of a wild boar.

Tusked :: Tusked (a.) Furnished with 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..

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