*dog*

n. 1. 1 (Zool.) a dog (Lycaon pictus) with mottled fur found in Africa, notable for the strong social structure of its family groups.
Syn. -- painted wolf, African hunting dog. [ PJC ]

n. [ Amide + -gen. ] (Chem.) A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Band + dog, i.e., bound dog. ] A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. [ 1913 Webster ]

The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The spiny dogfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.

2. a useless, wasteful, or impractical project; -- especially one authorized by a government agency as a favor to partisans, to employ unemployed people, or in return for corrupt payments. [ PJC ]

v. to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bulldog bat (Zo'94l.), a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; -- so called from the shape of its face. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Calendar + -graph + er. ] One who makes calendars. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also . [ Cathode + -graph. ] (Physics) A picture produced by the Roentgen rays; a radiograph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_; stain, spot + -graphy: cf. F. célidographie. ] A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ A punning corruption of concur. ] To concur; to agree. [ Burlesque ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word appears in early dictionaries as a synonym for the word agree; thus. “Agree; concurre, cohere, condog, condescend.” Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any dog trained to hunt raccoons. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the offspring of a coyote and a dog.
Syn. -- coy-dog. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg. ] 1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (Canis familiaris). The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the akita, beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz, terrier, German shepherd, pit bull, Chihuahua, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.) [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mech.) (a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them. (b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill. (c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. an ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

8. a hot dog. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

☞ Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dead dog, a thing of no use or value. 1 Sam. xxiv. 14. --
A dog in the manger, an ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them but is none to him. --
Dog ape (Zool.), a male ape. --
Dog cabbage, or
Dog's cabbage (Bot.), a succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region (Thelygonum Cynocrambe). --
Dog cheap, very cheap. See under Cheap. --
Dog ear (Arch.), an acroterium. [ Colloq. ] --
Dog flea (Zool.), a species of flea (Pulex canis) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See Flea, and Aphaniptera. --
Dog grass (Bot.), a grass (Triticum caninum) of the same genus as wheat. --
Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy. --
Dog lichen (Bot.), a kind of lichen (Peltigera canina) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath. --
Dog louse (Zool.), a louse that infests the dog, esp. Hæmatopinus piliferus; another species is Trichodectes latus. --
Dog power, a machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning. --
Dog salmon (Zool.), a salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the gorbuscha; -- called also holia, and hone. --
Dog shark. (Zool.) See Dogfish. --
Dog's meat, meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal. --
Dog Star. See in the Vocabulary. --
Dog wheat (Bot.), Dog grass. --
Dog whelk (Zool.), any species of univalve shells of the family Nassidæ, esp. the Nassa reticulata of England. --
To give to the dogs, or
To throw to the dogs, to throw away as useless. “Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.” Shak. --
To go to the dogs, to go to ruin; to be ruined. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dogged p. pr. & vb. n. Dogging. ] To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dogalis for ducalis. See Doge. ] Of or pertaining to a doge.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dogat, It. dogato. See Doge, and cf. Dogeate. ] The office or dignity of a doge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Said to be poisonous to dogs. Cf. Apocynaceous. ] (Bot.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

A male or drone bee. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dogberry tree (Bot.), the dogwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gun.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The dog-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

{ or . One of the dog days. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dogday cicada (Zool.), a large American cicada (Cicada pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer; metaphorically, a period of inactivity.
Syn. -- dog days, canicule, canicular days. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ The conjunction of the rising of the Dog Star with the rising of the sun was regarded by the ancients as one of the causes of the sultry heat of summer, and of the maladies which then prevailed. But as the conjunction does not occur at the same time in all latitudes, and is not constant in the same region for a long period, there has been much variation in calendars regarding the limits of the dog days. The astronomer Roger Long states that in an ancient calendar in Bede (died 735) the beginning of dog days is placed on the 14th of July; that in a calendar prefixed to the Common Prayer, printed in the time of Queen Elizabeth, they were said to begin on the 6th of July and end on the 5th of September; that, from the Restoration (1660) to the beginning of New Style (1752), British almanacs placed the beginning on the 19th of July and the end on the 28th of August; and that after 1752 the beginning was put on the 30th of July, the end on the 7th of September. Some English calendars now put the beginning on July 3d, and the ending on August 11th. A popular American almanac of the present time (1890) places the beginning on the 25th of July, and the end on the 5th of September. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Forest Law) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It doge, dogio, for duce, duca, fr. L. dux, ducis, a leader, commander. See Duke. ] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a corner of a page turned down to mark a place. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book; as, an old book with dog-eared pages. Making a page dog-eared is sometimes done deliberately to mark a location in a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. worn down, shabby.
Syn. -- eared. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Dogate. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a doge. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle. [ Also spelled dogy and dogie. ]
Syn. -- leppy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a face resembling that of a dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dog-faced baboon (Zool.), any baboon of the genus Cynocephalus. See Drill. [ 1913 Webster ]

One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and Scyllium canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, or horned dogfish (Squalus acanthias) abundant on both sides of the Atlantic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The burbot of Lake Erie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6. Sir W. Scott. (b) The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fron. Dog. ] 1. Sullen; morose. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work; dogged pursuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sullenness; moroseness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D., fr. dogger codfish, orig. used in the catching of codfish. ] (Naut.) A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. dogerel. ] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. [ 1913 Webster ]

This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sailor belonging to a dogger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Docket. See Docket. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]