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Definition of Fangs
1. fang [n] - See also: fang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fangs
Literary usage of Fangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. White Fang by Jack London (1906)
"CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF THE fangs IT was the she-wolf who had first caught the
sound of men's voices and the whining of the sled- dogs ; and it was the ..."
2. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1852)
"Lastly, the snake's fangs, ants, and pepper are bruised, and thrown into it.
It is then placed on a slow fire, and as it boils, more of the juice of the ..."
3. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1790)
"Linnaeus thought the fangs might be ... fangs appears evidently to raife doubts
in his mind, whether they are really ... that the fangs may be at any time ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(l) Serpents which are venomous, par excellence, or those with isolated fangs,
have their organs of manducation constructed on a very peculiar plan. ..."
5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"On the Structure of the Poisonous fangs of Serpents. ... 471.3 The object of this
paper is to explain the existence of a slit in the fangs of serpents, ..."
6. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The fangs are shed at intervals of about three months apart, and by a neat
provision of Nature the new fang grows into place beside the one about to be shed ..."
7. The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses by Robert William Service (1907)
"THE HEART OF THE SOURDOUGH There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto
the moon, There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow-bright, ..."
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