tusked, a.
(tʌskt, poet. ˈtʌskɪd)
[f. tusk n.1 + -ed2.]
Having tusks; armed with tusks.
| c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 526 Biforn hym stant brawen of the tusked [v.r. tuxed] swyn. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 82 Fed tuskit baris, and fat swyne. 1555 Eden Decades 355 Of the Indian elephantes, only the males haue tuskes. But of them of Ethiopia and Lybia, both kyndes are tusked. 1656 Cowley Anacreontiques, Beauty, Some with hard Hoofs, or forked claws, And some with Horns, or tusked jaws. 1681 Grew Musæum i. 27 As to those Beasts [wild boar] no one was horned and tusked too. 1860 Wraxall Life in Sea ii. 44 A young animal [walrus], not yet tusked,..continued the attack. 1906 A. Noyes Drake iii. in Blackw. Mag. May 622 Weird troops of tusked sea-lions. |
b. Her. Having the tusks of a specified tincture different from that of the rest of the body.
| 1766–87 Porny Heraldry v. (ed. 4) 162 Gules, an Elephant statant Argent, tusked Or. c 1828 Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Tusked, or Tushed,..is said of a boar, tyger, or elephant, when their tusks are borne of a different tincture to that of the body. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xvii. §3 (ed. 3) 281 Two boars arg., bristled, tusked, and unguled or. |