a. [f. FANG sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with fangs; in various senses of FANG sb.

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1602.  Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 203.

                    My two school-fellows,—
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d.

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1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., II. (1851), 44. Thir fight sometimes in Chariots phang’d at the Axle with Iron Sithes.

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a. 1709.  Watts, Horæ Lyr., II., Victory of Poles, 65.

                        Some southern blast
Tears from the Alps a ridge of knotty oaks
Deep fang’d, and ancient tenants of the rock.

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1791.  Cowper, Iliad, X. 424.

        As two fleet hounds sharp fang’d, train’d to the chace,
Hang on the rear of flying hind or hare.

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1794.  Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations, xiii.

        The air clipped keen, the night was fanged with frost,
And they provisionless!

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1816.  Kirby & Spence, Entomol. (1843), II. 34. They will make their fanged jaws meet at the very first stroke.

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1820.  Keats, Eve St. Agnes, xvii.

          Awake, with horrid shout, my foemen’s ears,
And beard them, though they be more fang’d than wolves and bears.

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1889.  Elvin, Dict. Heraldry, Plate xlii. 52. Fanged tooth.

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