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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TUSK, n. The long pointed tooth of certain rapacious, carnivorous or fighting animals; as the tusks of the boar.
TUSK, v.i. To gnash the teeth, as a boar.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses [syn: ivory, tusk]
2: a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog v
1: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer" [syn: horn, tusk]
2: remove the tusks of animals; "tusk an elephant" [syn: tusk, detusk]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of tux, from Old English t?x; akin to Old English t?sc tush Date: before 12th century 1. an elongated greatly enlarged tooth (as of an elephant or walrus) that projects when the mouth is closed and serves especially for digging food or as a weapon; broadly a long protruding tooth 2. one of the small projections on a tusk tenon • tusked adjective • tusklike adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1629 to dig up with a tusk; also to gash with a tusk

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a long pointed tooth, esp. protruding from a closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, etc. 2 a tusklike tooth or other object. --v.tr. gore, thrust at, or tear up with a tusk or tusks. Phrases and idioms: tusk shell 1 any of various molluscs of the class Scaphopoda. 2 its long tubular tusk-shaped shell. Derivatives: tusked adj. (also in comb.). tusky adj. Etymology: ME alt. of OE tux var. of tusc: cf. TUSH(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Torsk Torsk, n. [Dan.; akin to Icel. [thorn]orskr a codfish, G. dorsch.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) The cusk. See Cusk. (b) The codfish. Called also tusk.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tusk Tusk, n. [OE. tusk, the same word as tusch, AS. tusc. See Tush a tooth.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell. 3. (Carp.) 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tusk Tusk, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Torsk.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tusk Tusk, v. i. To bare or gnash the teeth. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cusk Cusk (k?sk), n. (Zo["o]l.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tusks) The tusks of an elephant, wild boar, or walrus are its two very long, curved, pointed teeth. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Tush, fang, pointed tooth.

Moby Thesaurus

baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, gore, grinder, horn, incisor, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, tooth, tush, wisdom tooth