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adj
Having sharp or menacing fangs.
Cerberus, soon as our adit he espied, Quivering in every limb for anger, wide Opened his fangful mouths, and at us gnasht.
The cat was curled in a soft armchair close by the fire. She yawned a fangful yawn, stretched her claws and sat up.
Cruel or venomous.
Such a woman's affectional demonstrations, if not wholly vampiral, would be a wide departure from the truth ; would not be really human, but snakish, fangful, Judas-like, because utterly and wholly empty of all genuine heartness, that ineffable delight man sighs for and expects.
That have lookt forward to a dawning sweet, Upon my tongue they have been bitter. Oh, I drained the cup of scorn in those old days When laughter and detraction followed me From fangful packs of snarlers, e'er and aye
noun
An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
With a howl of pain he grabbed the evil thing by the tail before it could sneak away. A big black cobra with its fangful of venom.
She lunged then, faster than Orsa had, something black and terrible in her face like a serpent about to unleash a fangful of venom.
An amount sufficient to fill a fanged creature's mouth.
We heard how two copperheads line each side of the Frail to bite hikers as they pass, assuring at least one of the snakes a fangful.
And down the dark and twisting clouds came a foggy stream of running wolves with luminous eyes, Quicksilver at their forefront, snapping at the head of the Wendigo, biting it away in airy fangfuls.