Tusk (?), v. i. To bare or gnash the teeth. [Obs.]

Tusked (?), a. Furnished with tusks.

The tusked boar out of the wood.

Milton.

Tusk"er (?), n. (Zoöl.) An elephant having large tusks.

Tusk"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) See 2d Tusk, n., 2.

Tusk"y (?), a. Having tusks. "The scar indented by the tusky oar."

Dryden.

Tus"sac grass` (?). Tussock grass.

Tus"sah silk` (?). [Probably fr. Hind. tasar a shuttle, Skr. tasara,

trasara.] (a) A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other

than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China. (b) The silk

fiber itself. [Written also tusseh silk.]

Tus*sic"u*lar (?), a. [L. tussicularis, fr. tussicula, dim. of tussis a

cough.] Of or pertaining to a cough. Dunglison.

Tus"sle (?), v. i. & t. [See Tousle.] To struggle, as in sport; to

scuffle; to struggle with. [Colloq.]

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