DOG 
DOG’s-BERRY, /. in botany. See Cornus. 
DOG-BOLT, J. Of this word the meaning is uncer¬ 
tain, unlefs it be, that when meal or flour is fitted or 
bolted to a certain degree, the coarfer part is called dog- 
doit, or flour for dogs. Johnfon. 
His only folace was, that now 
His dog-bolt fortune was fo low. 
That either it mtift quickly end, 
Or turn about again, and mend. Hudibras. 
DOG-CHEAP, adj. Cheap as dogs meat; cheap as 
the offal bought for dogs.—Good (tore of harlots, fay 
you, and dog-chcap? Dry den. 
DOG-DAYS, f Certain days in July and Auguft, 
commonly from the 24th of the firft to the 28th of the 
latter, fo called from the ftar Canis, or dog-ftar, which 
then rifes and fets with the fun, and greatly increafes the 
heat, and is vulgarly reputed unwholefome.—Nor was it 
more in his power to be without promotion and titles, 
than for a healthy man to (it in the fun, in the brighteft 
dog-days, and remain without warmth. Clarendon. 
DOG-DRAW, J. The manifeft deprehenfion of an of¬ 
fender againft venifon in a foreft, when he is found draw¬ 
ing after a deer, by the feent of a hound led in his 
hand : or where a perfon hath wounded a deer, and is 
caught'with a dog drawing after him to recover the fame. 
See the article Game. 
DOG’s-E AR, f. The creafe of a leaf in a hook by 
being thumbed, or turned down.—Books of a lighter di- 
geftion have the dog's ears. M. of Halifax. 
Under a tea-cup he might lie 
Or creas’d like dog's-ears in a folio. Gray's Long Story. 
DOG-FISH, f. Another name for a (hark.—It is part 
of the jaw of a (hark, or dog-fifh. Woodward. 
DOG-FLY, f A fly which infefls dogs : 
Thump-buckler Mars began, 
And at Minerva with a lance of brafs he headlong ran ; 
Thefe vile words u(hej;ing his blows, Thou dog-fly what’s 
the caufe 
Thou makeft gods fight thus ? Chapman. 
DOG’s-GRASS, f. inbotany. See Triticum. 
DOG’s-HEAD, a cape on the weft: coaft of Ireland, 
in the county of Galway. Lat. 53. 34. N. Ion. 10. 8. W. 
Greenwich. 
DOG-HEARTED, adj. Cruel; pitilefs; malicious: 
His unkindnefs, 
That ftript her from his benediction, turn’d her 
To foreign cafualties, gave her dear rights 
To his dog-hearted daughters. Skahcfpcare. 
DOG-HOLE, f. A vile hole ; a mean habitation : 
But, could you be content to bid adieu 
To the dear playhoufe, and the players too, 
Sweet country feats are purchas’d ev’ry where, 
With lands and gardens, at lefs price than here 
You hire a darkfome dog-hole by the year. Dry den. 
DOG-HOUSE, f. A kennel for dogs.—Not only thofe 
curs at the dog-houfe, but thofe within the walls, are to 
ferve in their places at their feveral huntings. Overbury. 
DOG ISLAND, one of the fmaller Virgin Iflands, 
near the north-weft coaft of Virgin Gorda, and ealt of 
Tortula. 
DOG-KENNEL, , f. A hut or houfe for dogs. See 
Kennel. —A certain nobleman, beginning with a dog- 
kennel, never lived to finiih the palace he had contrived. 
Dry den. 
DOG’s-MEAT, /. Refufe ; vile fluff; offal like the 
flefti fold to feed dogs.—His reverence bought of me the 
flower of all the market; thefe are but dog's-meat to ’em. 
Dry den. 
DOG’s-MERCURY, f in botany. See Mercurialis. 
DOG-ROSE, f. The flower of the hip. See Rosa. — 
Of the rough or hairy excrefcence, thofe on the briar ? or 
dog-rofe i are a good inftance. Derham. 
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DOG-SLEEP, f Pretended deep.—Juvenal mentions 
a dr.owfy hufband, who railed an eftate by fnoring ; but 
then he is reprefented to have dept what the common 
people call dog-fleep. Addifon. 
DOG-STAR, J'. [canicula , Lat.] The ftar which gives 
the name to the dog-days : 
All diun the raging dog-far's fultry heat, 
And from the half-unpeopled town retreat. Addifon.. 
DOG’s-TATL GRASS,/ - , inbotany. SeeCYNOSURUs. 
DOG-TEETH, /. The teeth in the human head next 
to the grinders ; the eye-teeth.—The beft inftruments for 
dividing of herbs are incifor-teeth.; for cracking of hard 
fubftances, as bones and nuts, grinders, or mill-teeth ; 
for dividing of flelh, (harp-pointed or dog-teeth. Arbulhnot. 
DOG’s-TOOTH,/. in botany. See Erythronium. 
DOG-TRICK, /. An ill turn ; furly or brutal treat¬ 
ment. — Learn better manners, or I (hall ferve you a dog- 
1 trick ; I’ll make you know your rider. Dryden. 
DOG-TROT, f. A gentle trot like that of a dog: 
This faid, they both advanc’d, and rode 
A dog-trot through the bawling crowd. Hudibras. 
DOG-WEARY, adj. Tired as a dog; exceflively* 
weary : 
Oh, matter, auafter, I have watch’d fo long, 
That I’m dog-weary. Shahcfpcare. 
DOG-WHIP, /. A whip for whipping dogs with.—~ 
Let him blood with a dog-whip. Beaumont and Fletcher. 
DOG-WOOD, /. in botany. See Cornus. 
DOGA'DO, that part of the Venetian States in which 
is the capital; it extends from the mouth of the Lifonzo 
to that of the Adige, between the country of Friuli, the 
Paduan, and the Polefin-de-Rovigno, including the canals 
of Venice and the canals of Marano. The dogado of Ve¬ 
nice is now properly the fecond divifion of Maritime 
Auftria, >the city itfelf with its lacunes and ifie forming 
the firft. 
DOGE, f. The chief magiftrate in the republics of 
Venice and Genoa. The word properly fignifies duke, 
being formed from the Latin dux ; as dogate, and dogado „ 
from ducatus, duchy. See the articles Genoa and Venice. 
DOG'GED, adj. Sullen; four; morole; ill-humoured; 
gloomy.—I’ll fill thefe dogged fpies with falfe reports. 
Shakejpeare. 
Few miles on horfeback had they jogged, 
But fortune Unto them turn’d dogged. Hudibras. 
DOG'GEDLY, adv. Sullenly; gloomily; fourly; 
morofely. 
DOG'GEDNESS, f. Gloom of mind; fullennefs; 
morofenefs. 
DOG'GER, f. A fi(hing-veftel, generally employed 
in the herring fifhery ; equipped with two mails, and 
fomewhat refembling a ketch. 
DOG'GER-BANK, a very extenfive fand-bank in 
the German Ocean, between the coaft of England and 
Germany. 
DOG'GER-MEN, fiftiermen that belong to dogger- 
Ihips. 25 Hen. VIII. c. 2. 
DOG'GEREL, adj. Loofed from the meafuresor rules 
of regular poetry ; vile ; defpicable ; mean : vfed of verfes. 
—It is a difpute among the critics, whether burlelque 
poetry runs beft in heroic verfe, like that of the Difpen- 
fary : or in doggerel, like tlvat of Hudibras. Addifon. 
Then haften Og and Doeg to rehearfe, 
Two fools that Crutch their feeble fenfe on verfe; 
Who by my mufe to all fucceeding times 
Shall live, in fpite of their own dogg'rel rhymes. Dryden. 
DOG'GEREL,/ Mean, defpicable, worthlefs, verfess 
The hand and head were never loft of thofe 
Who dealt in dogg'rel, or who pin'd in profe. Dryden. 
DOG'GESS, f. A bitch; a woman in contempt* 
GiarijTa. 
DOG'GISH* 
