fang

plural fangs · alternative obsolete phang · alternative obsolete phange

1. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.First known use 16th cent.

   The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123

   Synonyms: fangtooth

2. obsoleteSynonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates.First known use 17th cent.

   Synonyms: mandible

3. A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom.First known use 18th cent.
4. A pointed extension of the chelicera in spiders, used for injecting venom.First known use 19th cent.
5. colloquialSynonym of tooth, particularly in humans.First known use 19th cent.

   Synonyms: tooth, particularly in humans

6. mathematicsEither of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.

present singular third person fangs · participle present fanging · participle past fanged · past fanged · alternative obsolete phang · alternative obsolete phange

1. rareTo strike or attack with the fangs.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

   chariots fang'd with scythes

   1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton

present singular third person fangs · participle present fanging · participle past fanged · past fanged · alternative obsolete phang · alternative obsolete phange

1. archaicdialectaltransitiveTo catch, capture; seize.

   Destruction fang mankind.

   c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3

   1 more example

   Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

   1605, John Webster, Northward Ho, act 1, scene 2

   Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip, clutch, lay hold of, beclasp, begrasp, begrip

2. dialectalobsoletetransitiveTo take; receive with assent; accept.

   Synonyms: land, lay hands on, score, acquire, accept, attain, come by, cop

3. obsoletetransitiveTo receive with hospitality.

   Synonyms: greet, welcome

4. obsoletetransitivea thing given or imposedTo receive.

   Synonyms: cop, get, acquire, accept, attain, come by, cop, enlist

5. dialectaltransitiveTo receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

plural fangs · alternative obsolete phang · alternative obsolete phange

1. ScotlanddialectalA grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.First known use 13th cent.
2. ScotlanddialectalThat which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.First known use 13th cent.

   Synonyms: booty

3. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
   1. obsoleteSynonym of trap or noose.First known use 16th cent.

      Synonyms: trap or noose

   2. Synonym of root, the part of a tooth embedded in the gums.First known use 17th cent.

      Synonyms: root

   3. obsoletebiologySynonym of root, a major projection of a plant's root system.First known use 17th cent.

      Now take out your Indian Tuberoſes, parting the Off-ſets (but with care, leſt you break their fangs) then pot them in natural (not forc'd) Earth; [...] the protuberant fangs of the Yuca are to be treated like the Tuberoſes.

      1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [April.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 15

      Synonyms: root

   4. obsoleteSynonym of claw or talon.First known use 18th cent.

      Synonyms: claw or talon

   5. Synonym of spike or prong, any sharp projection.First known use 18th cent.

      Synonyms: spike or prong, any sharp projection

   6. Synonym of tang, the projection of a piece of metal intended to be driven into a shaft for holding.First known use 18th cent.

      Synonyms: tang

4. archaicnauticalSynonym of vang, a line extended from the end of a gaff to control its position.First known use 16th cent.

   Synonyms: vang

5. nauticalThe valve of a pump-box.First known use 19th cent.
6. DerbyshiredialectalbusinessA channel cut or pipe set for the purpose of carrying fresh air to working miners.
7. in pluralrarebusinessCatches on which a coalmining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.

   Synonyms: cage-shuts

present singular third person fangs · participle present fanging · participle past fanged · past fanged · alternative obsolete phang · alternative obsolete phange

1. ScotlandtransitiveTo supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

present singular third person fangs · participle present fanging · participle past fanged · past fanged · alternative obsolete phang · alternative obsolete phange

1. AustraliaintransitiveslangtransitiveTo drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.

   Batman changed gears and fanged the car a little too fast around a corner, almost skidding onto Elizabeth Street at the back of Redfern.

   2017, Karen M. Davis, Fatal Mistake

   2 more examples

   Soph was probably out drag-racing with Draz, or fanging down some brightly lit street somewhere hanging out Draz's brother's sunroof and waving at passers-by and screaming.

   2008, Mardi McConnochie, “The Mission”, in Dangerous Games

   The question of whether rail might be a better long-term option than road is passed over with the speed of a merchant banker fanging up the toll road to Mount Buller for the weekend[…]

   2014 August 1, Michael West, “Victoria's $1 billion per kilometre road - who wouldn't rail against that?”, in The Age

1. pluralplural onlyA people of western Africa.

1. The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
2. A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.

1. A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.

   Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.

   1907, Report for the Year 1907 on the Chemical, Metal and Mining Industries of the Consular District of Lyons, →OCLC, page 23

   5 more examples

   FANG COUNTY HYDROELECTRICITY--This year the people in Fang County have developed 135 small hydroelectric power stations with a total installed[...]

   1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, numbers 471-479, →OCLC

   After parting with his brothers, Wang Yü-yang journeyed on the southwest road and came to a small town nestled in the rural region of Fang County.

   1990, Eva Wong, transl., Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China, Boston; London: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110

   “Its speed was very fast, but it was walking, not running,” Yuan said. As the creature ranged across a mountain in Fang county, bordering the Shennongjia Forestry District, “it walked faster than a human ran”.

   2018 August 26, Laurie Chen, “Dreamers, crackpots or realists? The diehards on the trail of China’s ‘Bigfoot’”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2018

   Hubei Sanxin Biotechnology Co., LTD, located in Fang County, Shiyan City, has developed a series of traditional Chinese medicine [from] Polygonum Cuspidatum, including "yellow bud stem" vegetables, resveratrol extract, emodin extract, and crude Polygonum cuspidatum extract and so on.

   2019, Na Li, Ni Yan, “Present Situation and Development Suggestions of Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry in Hubei Province”, in 2019 4th International Conference on Education and Social Development (ICESD 2019), →DOI, →ISBN, page 147

   Now, the Fang County government is trying “incentives,” according to a statement posted Saturday on its website. People who report their own fevers will receive 1,000 renminbi, the equivalent of $143 — a few days’ salary for the average Hubei resident.

   2020 March 12, en, “Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2020

2. A surname from Mandarin

1. economicsFour large technology companies, or (metonymically) their stock: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

   The FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) today are leading the charge, and many of them boast P/Es in the hundreds!

   2017, Young Kim, chapter 3, in Surviving the Buy Now, Pay Never Society, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN