a. [f. as prec. + -Y.] Characterized by tusks; tusked: chiefly as a poetic epithet of the wild boar.
1620. Shelton, Quix., II. xxxiv. 223. The Tuskie Boare was laid along, with many iauelins points.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Past., X. 89. On Mountain tops to chace the tusky Boar.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Elegies, xx. 61. For them our tusky elephant expires.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xx. (1856), 160. That marine pachyderm, the tusky walrus.
b. Having projections like tusks.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., VI. x. The banks, ragged and tusky with fallen trees, were in few places accessible.
