transcription, транскрипция: [ tʌsk ]
n. & v. --n. 1 a long pointed tooth, esp. protruding from a closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, etc. 2 a tusklike tooth or other object. --v.tr. gore, thrust at, or tear up with a tusk or tusks. øtusk shell 1 any of various molluscs of the class Scaphopoda. 2 its long tubular tusk-shaped shell. øøtusked adj. (also in comb.). tusky adj. [ME alt. of OE tux var. of tusc: cf. TUSH(2)]