Tusked

a. [f. TUSK sb.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.