Fang | |
1. n. A people of western Africa. | |
2. n. a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | |
3. n. (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | |
4. v. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs. | |
5. v. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. | |
6. v. (transitive, dialectal, or archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. | |
7. v. (transitive, dialectal, or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept. | |
8. v. (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome. | |
9. v. (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive. | |
10. v. (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to. | |
11. n. (now chiefly dialectal Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. | |
12. n. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods. | |
13. n. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ. | |
14. n. (mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air. | |
15. n. (rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts. | |
16. n. (nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap. | |
17. n. (nautical) The valve of a pump box. | |
18. v. (Scotland, transitive) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate. | |