dogger 1720 dogmatical 
dogger 2 (dog'er), n. [So. also doggar: see be- dog-grass (dog'gras), n. A coarse grass, Agro- dogma (dog'mji), n. ;_pl. dogmas (-maz) or dor/- 
The term was introduced into English pyrum caninum, resembling couch-grass, but mata (-ma-til). 
'- Tt ^" ^ 
low. 
geology by Young and Bird in 1822.] 
and oolitic ironstone. 
A sandy with fibrous roots and longer awns. Also dog's- 
The term Dogger Series, how- grass, dog-wheat, 
ever, is generally taken to include not only the dogger dog-grate (dog'grat), n. A fire-grate of the 
g s or andirons. 
A grate with standards, which we still call a dog-grate. 
O. T. ISobiiuon, in Art Journal, 1881. 
y ons. e ogger s , i , -, / 
re which it contains. This dOggTCl (dog rel), a. and n. bee doggerel. 
geologists is the equivalent doggy^ (dog'i), a. [X flog + -//!.] Doggish; 
Pack hence, doggye rakhels ! Stanihnrst, JSneid, i. 145. 
doggy 1 (dog'i), .; pi. doggies (-iz). [< dog + 
Lias) in Yorkshire, where dogger is a provincial word 
meaning a rounded stone, in allusion to the rounded ap- 
pearance caused by atmospheric action on the large blocks 
into which the rock is divided by joints. The dogger is 
much worked for the iron on 
name as used by Continental gi _ DDir _ _ 
of that part of the Jurassic series which corresponds to vih FEny 1 
the Lower Oolite of the English geologists. It is the Brown 
Jura of the Germans, and is there divided into three 
groups, distinguished by their fossil remains. The en- 
tire series consists of many alternations of clays, marls, u 88y i" u S 1; Z ''> P 1 - uuyym,(-u>. \_\ uog T 
shales, and sandstones, frequently containing iron ore, as dlm ' -?/ -J A little dog: a pet term tor a dog. 
is the case in England. doggy 2 (dog'i), ii. ; pi. doggies (-iz). [E. dial.] 
doggerel (dog'er-el), a. and n. [Sometimes In coal-mining, the overlooker or "boss" of a 
written doggrel ; < ME. dogerel, adj. ; origin un- certain number of men and boys. [South Staf- 
known. There is no obvious connection with fordshire and north of Eng.] 
dog; cf. dog-Latin.'] I. a. An epithet origi- dog-head (dog'hed), n. 1 . Part of the lock of a 
nally given to a kind of loose, irregular measure gun ; the hammer. [Scotch.] 
in burlesque poetry, like that of "Hudibras," Also called dog. 
but now more generally applied to mean verses 
defective alike in sense and in rhythm. 
" Now such a rym the devel I beteche ! 
This may wel be rym dogerel," quod he. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Tale of Melibeus, 1. 7. 
I confesse the most part to be so rude, blunt, and harsh, uuwci o. 
and so full of tautologie (which I could not avoide), that A n a hfirlpr] (<iop-'hfici"p<n n 
they are not worthy to be uccompted for verses or meeters, a g " eaae( * 1 Q , . ne( a >> a - 
but rather for rime doggrel. Having a head like that of 
T. BUI, Arithmetic (1600), Pref. a dog; cynocephalous : spe- 
Two fools that . . . cifically applied (a) to sundry baboons, also 
Shal, Uve in sp.te oUheir own aog^el Rhymes u d dog . faccd; (6) to a South American boa> 
TT -, T, , Xiphosoma camnum. 
reSlar measure ^ P *' generallv m lr - dog-hearted (dog'har"ted), a. Having, as it 
lre - were, the heart of a dog; hence, cruel ; 
malicious. 
Ye stand there hammering dog- 
heads for fules that will never 
snap them at a Highlandman. 
Scott, Waverley, x\\. 
2. A hammer used by saw- 
makers. 
s'hed"< 
H"aving a 
Dog-heatl. 
Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison, Spectator. 
2. Mean, paltry verses, defective in sense and 
in rhythm. 
The rhyming puffs of blacking, cosmetics, and quack 
medicines are well-known specimens of doggerel, which 
only the ignorant class style poetry. W. Chambers. 
The author of the Dialogus de Scaccario and the Latin 
biographer of Richard I. both run into what would be dog- 
gerel if it were not Latin, apparently out of the very glee 
of their hearts and devotion to their subject-matter. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 152. 
doggerelist (dog'er-el-ist), n. [< doggerel + 
-ist.'] A writer of doggerel. [Rare.] 
The greatest modern doggerelist was John Wolcot, better 
known as Peter Pindar, whose satirical and scurrilous 
verses fill several volumes. If. Chambers. 
doggerelize (dog'er-el-Iz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. 
doggerelized, ppr. doggerelizing. [< doggerel + 
-ize.] To write doggerel : as, to doggerelige for 
advertising purposes. E. D. 
doggerelizer (dog'er-el-!-zer), n. One who dog- 
gerelizes ; a writer of mean rimes. 
A sarcastical and ill-tempered doggerelizer. 
Annals of Phil, and I'enii., I. 178. 
Master Dove, a doggerelizer and satyrist. 
His dog-hearted daughters. Shale., Lear, iv. 3. 
dog-hole (dog'hol), n. A hole or kennel for a 
dog ; a place fit only for dogs ; a vile habitation. 
[= F. dogmc = Sp. Pg. dogma 
= It. dogma, domma = D. G. dogma = Dan. dog- 
mc = Sw. dogm, < L. dogma, < Gr. 66yfia(r-), that 
which seems good, an opinion, view, a public 
decree, edict, or ordinance, < donsiv, think, seem, 
appear, seem good (that is, be one's opinion, 
pleasure, or will, be decreed), = L. decere, be- 
hoove: see decent.'] 1. A settled opinion; a 
principle, maxim, or tenet held as being firmly 
established. 2. A principle or doctrine pro- 
pounded or received on authority, as opposed 
to one based on experience or demonstration ; 
specifically, an authoritative religious doctrine. 
A dogma is a proposition ; it stands for a notion or for 
a thing ; and to believe it is to give the assent of the mind 
to it, as standing for one or for the other. 
J. 11. Newman, Gram, of Assent, p. 94. 
The confused masses of partial traditions and dogmata 
with which it has become encumbered. 
Edinburgh Rev., t'XLV. 219. 
3. Authoritative teaching or doctrine; a sys- 
tem of established principles or tenets, espe- 
cially religious ones; specifically, the whole 
body or system of Christian doctrine, as ac- 
cepted either by the church at large or by any 
Ijraneh of it. 
The truth of any religion lies not in its dogma,, but In 
its moral beauty or poetical imperishability. 
X. A. Ken., CXL. 319. 
Literature and Dogma [title of a book]. M. Arnold. 
4. In the Eantia-n philosophy, a directly syntheti- 
cal proposition based on concepts of the under- 
standing. It is distinguished (1) from an analytical 
judgment, (2) from a fact of experience, (3) from a mathe- 
matical proposition, and (4) from an indirectly syntheti- 
cal apodeictic proposition, such as the law of sufficient 
reason. =Syn. Precept, Tenet, etc. See doctrine. 
dog-mad (dog'mad), a. Mad as a mad dog; ut- 
terly demented. 
You are dog-mad, yet perceive it not ; 
Very far mad, and whips will scant recover you. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 3. 
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits dog-man (dog'man), n. One who deals in dogr's- 
The tread of a man's foot. Shak., All's Well, ii. 3. m a t. 
Shall I never return to mine own house again? We are And filch the dog-man's meat 
To feed the offspring of God. 
Mrs. Browning, Napoleon III. in Italy. 
lodg'd here in the miserablest dog-hole. 
Fletcher, Kule a Wife, iii. 2. 
Though the best room in the house, in such a narrow dogmaolatry (dog-ma-ol'a-tri), . flrreg for 
dogg-hole we were crammed that it made me loathe my * ' * " '' 
company and victuals. Pepys, Diary, Jan. 23, 1662. 
In the gallery there is a model of a wretched-looking 
dog-hole of a building, with a ruined tower beside it. 
(iremlle, Memoirs, Aug. 19, 1834. 
doghoqd (dog'hud), n. [< dog + -hood.'] The 
condition of being a dog ; dogs collectively. 
But a lapdog would be necessarily at a loss in framing 
to itself the motives and adventures of doqhood at large. 
Qtorge Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xliv. 
dog-hook (dog'huk), n. 1. A strong hook or 
dogmatolatry, < Gr. &oyua(T-), dogma, - 
worship.] The worship of dogma ; undue fond- 
ness or reverence for dogmatic teachings or 
doctrines. [Rare.] 
The dogmaolatrg of the last two centuries (Popish and 
Protestant). Kingsley, Life (1852), I. 268. 
dogmata, n. Greek plural of dogma. 
dogmatic (dog-mat'ik), a. and . [= P. dog- 
matiqm = Sp. dogmdtico = Pg. It. dogmatico 
(ef. D. G. dogmatisch = Dan. Sw. dogmatist), < 
LL. dogmaticus, < Gr. <!oj flaring, < <56-)>fta(T-), a 
2. A bar of iron with a bent prong, used in 
handling logs. E. H. Knight. 
doggerman 
(-men). [< dogger! 
mg to a dogger. f<5 do See " kennell 
doggery (dog AM), .; pi. doggeries (-iz). [< dog-Latin (dog'laf'in), . Barbarous Latin. 
- D t ^ s Q conduct; mean, low, or dog-leech (dog'lech), . One who treats the 
of the nature of a dogma or an authoritatively 
settled doctrine; pertaining to dogma or au- 
thoritative doctrine in general: as, dogmatic 
theology. 
Lipsius therefore is wrecked on the antinomy between 
dogmatic knowledge and spiritual incapacity of knowing. 
- I. 472. 
I quackery. Carlyle. 2. A 
, ~, --, agroggery. [Slang, U. S.] 
doggett (dog'et), n. An old form of docket. 
dogging (dog'ing), n. [< dog + -gd.] The 
method or practice of hunting game with dogs : 
as, the dogging of deer. 
doggish (dog'ish), a. [< dog + -islt^.'] Like a 
dog; churlish; growling; snappish. 
Or if we will be so vnordinate, and (with reuerenee be dog-legged (dog'legd), a. 
it spoken, without offence to God or man) so doggish and " 1 -" J r - -*~ J 
i-lll'l'lBh nna ftsv annMkAB <1... I ,. i l i...j.i_ ' i i "i a 
of * 
This dog-leech, 
You style him doctor, 'cause he can compile 
An almanac. B. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 1. 
Westminster Ret., ('XXVI. 
The deliverances of the Roman Catholic Church upon the 
also spelled dog- subject are dogmatic, and based upon the assumption or 
belief that it cannot err, and must be obeyed, whether 
reasons are given or not A'. A. Jiev., CXLIII. 356. 
2. Asserting, or disposed to make positive as- 
sertions of, opinion, doctrine, or fact without 
Suspicion of " Servility," of reverence for Superiors, the presenting argument or evidence, or in an over- 
,-erydo^ e cA,s anxious to disavow. bearing and arrogant manner. 
Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 161. 
-r ., ,, In arch., a term ap- 
, . plied to stairs which have no well-hole, the rail 
er"whiD e vs an '' theLordlack ^ hn 't his . dog - 8trik - aud biters of the upper and under flights 
.-- - -- yrs, p. 17. falling in the same vertical plane. 
In a doggish man- dog-letter (dog'lef'er), n. The letter or sound 
r. Also called canine letter. See 
doggishly (dog'ish-li), adv. 
ner; as a dog. 
We grow more and more impatient of generalisations 
and idealisations, and more and more intolerant of dog- 
matic assumptions, the longer we study them. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 371. 
3. In the Kantian jiJiilosopJiy, relating to that 
kind of metaphysics which deduces its doctrines 
syllogistically, or from the analysis of concep- 
ly\rr/riciTl n tA ''I. \ ml u*uv uwu^nA \jiMlvnnfv wl'liGI . IOCC It. f 9~*~ " JJ v * ^.i viii uuv * Ma vi viv^AJWCU- 
38 (dog ish-nes), , The quality of dog-lichen (dog'U'ken),. The popular name of tlons . setting out with those which seem per- 
oeiug uoggisn. the rAant Pf.lfi^it'rn ^nninn TI, jj._ fectlv clear and distinct : onnnspH t.n pritiml 
the plant Peltigera can'ina. Tluf frond is prostrate l ect ly dear and distinct : opposed to critical. 
foliaceous, irregular in outline, membranous, brownish- 
green or grayish above, whitish and spongiose beneath. 
dog-gone, dog-on (dog'gon', -6a'),interj. [An 
allusive mitigation of the oath God damn.'] A =--.,- .. o HU ,. s , uoc uouci , t ,,. , ---. , , v ff ~ 
minced oath, used imperativelv eouivaWr tn e a P tnec 'a are attached to the upper side of extended tfnal >', Sure, Certain, Confident, etc. (see confident) ; orac- 
y?9 . i j- . J J s~. lobes. It u varr flomtnnn /m Hnn Mvwn4 c f,, aD ,i ular, cateuorii-al. 
. 
Dogmatic Christianity. See Christianity, 1 (4). =Syn. 
2. Authoritative, Magisterial, Dogmatic, etc. (see maait- 
darn? as a euphemism for 
low.] 
dog-goned(dog'gdnd'), a. 
T 
Having a hang-dog 
, 
[Colloq. and low, 
A wretched kind of a dog-looked fellow. 
Sir R. L' Estrange, tr. of Quevedo's Visions i 
dog-louse (dog'lous), . A louse which infests 
. dogmatize = Sp. dogmdtico = G. 
X " Same a8 
But when that choir got up to sing 
ng 
A body ever heard. doglyt (dog'li), . [< dot) + -?)/ 1 .] Like a dog 
II ill Carleton, Farm Ballads, p. 80 churlish 
lhc I)ossiMli * and the ~* <* * as do,, 
' rest upon the specific nature of Christianity as the 
Perfect form of a divinely given religion. 
2 . A dogmatist. 
d&matifal (dog-rnat'i-kal), a. and n. I. . 
**"-' * 
these auUl0 is ... so grave, sententious, dog- 
matical a rogue, that there is no enduring him. Sutft. 
