fang

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects its poison.
2. n. Any of the canine teeth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
3. n. A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth.
4. n. The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
5. n. A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To catch; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
2. To take; receive with assent, accept.
3. To receive with hospitality, as a guest; welcome.
4. To receive (a thing given or imposed).
5. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
6. To seize; lay hold.
7. n. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
8. n. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
9. n. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
10. n. Specifically — A claw or talon; a falcula.
11. n. A fin.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. n. The tang of a tool.
17. n. Any projecting prong in a lock or a bolt.
18. n. In mining: A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, for conveying air.
19. n. plural Cage-shuts.
20. n. A valve in a pump; the water-seal of a pump.

Wiktionary

1. v. To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
2. v. To take; receive with assent; accept.
3. v. To receive with hospitality; welcome.
4. v. To receive.
5. v. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
6. v. to strike or attack with the fangs
7. n. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or (in snakes) for injecting venom.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
2. v. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
3. 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.
4. n. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
5. n. The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
6. n. A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
7. 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.
8. n. The valve of a pump box.
9. n. A bend or loop of a rope.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
2. n. hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
3. n. a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
4. n. canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey