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Definition of Tusks

1. tusk [v] - See also: tusk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tusks

Literary usage of Tusks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"The same argument would serve to demonstrate the fallacy of the conjecture, that the tusks of the elephant were given to him as weapons of offence, ..."

2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"The milk tusks were first examined; and as their points only were visible, one of the bony canals in which the tusk is contained was laid open : it was ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The size of the tusks in the African elephant varies very greatly, and is no criterion as to the stature of the animal. In the southern part of that ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The value of the ivory depends upon the size of the tusks ; those below 6 or 7 3b weight are not worth more than half the price per 0) of really fine tusks. ..."

5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1892)
"tusks wanted something to eat and the little brother told him to take all he wanted, and he took all there was. Again at evening he said: "Your father is ..."

6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1892)
"tusks wanted something to eat and the little brother told him to take all he wanted, and he took all there was. Again at evening he said: "Your father is ..."

7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"cavity of the tusks, he states, is in like manner filled up by the secretion of the pulp which retrogrades in the course of its absorption, and hence the ..."

8. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1857)
"In the walrus the tusks are limited to a single pair, growing from the upper jaw, and descending outside the lower jaw. Their substance is lese dense and ..."

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