Definition of dog

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Dog (n.) 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..

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Dog-fox :: Dog-fox (n.) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6..
Dictum :: Dictum (n.) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Hop :: Hop (n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
Dogger :: Dogger (n.) A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron..
Puer :: Puer (n.) The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning..
Dogmatic :: Dogmatic (a.) Alt. of Dogmatica.
Growl :: Growl (v. i.) To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound..
Doggish :: Doggish (a.) Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man..
Dogfish :: Dogfish (n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc..
Howl :: Howl (n.) The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound..
Exogen :: Exogen (n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen..
Point :: Point (v. i.) To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do..
Hangdog :: Hangdog (a.) Low; sneaking; ashamed.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does..
Magistral :: Magistral (a.) Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
Pseudovum :: Pseudovum (n.) An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Paedogenesis..
Tulip-eared :: Tulip-eared (a.) Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs..
Apocynin :: Apocynin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum).
Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..
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