a. [f. as prec. + -ISH.] Of the nature of a fang; piercing.

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c. 1825.  Beddoes, Poems, The Israelite amid Philistines, 102.

        I’ll throw away the workings of my tongue,
Till I’ve the craft to make a curse so long,
Fangish enough to reach the quick of earth,
That hell whose flaming name my feelings echo,
And rouse it for them.

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