DOG 
DOG 
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You have deceiv’d our trud. 
And made us doff our eafy robes of peace, 
To crufh our old limbs in ungentle deck Shakefpeare. 
To drip ; to dived of any thing: 
Why art thou troubled, Herod ? what vain fear 
Thy blood-revolving bread doth move? 
Heav’n’s king, who dffs himfelf our dedt to wear. 
Comes not to rule in wrath, but ferve in love. Cra/hazo. 
To put away ; to get rid of: 
Your eye in Scotland 
Would create foldiers, and make women fight, 
To doff their dire didrefles. Shakefpeare. 
To diift off; to delay ; to refer to another time ; to put 
off.—Every day thou dff'Jl me with fome device, Iago; 
and rather keep’d from me all conveniency, than fup- 
plied me with the lead advantage of hope. Shakefpeare. 
Away, I will not have to do with you.— 
—Cand thou fo doff me ? Shakefpeare. 
This word is in all its fenfes obfolete, and fcarcely ufed 
except by rudics; yet it is a pure and commodious word. 
DOF'FIR, a town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen: 
twelve miles fouth of Chamir. 
DO'FRE, a town of Norway: thirty-fix miles ead of 
Romfdael. 
DOG, f. \_dogghc, Dut. cants, Lat.] That domedic 
animal which is fo fubfervient to man, and no lefs re¬ 
markable for its fidelity and fagacity, than for the va¬ 
riety of its fpecies; comprifing the rnadiff, the fpaniel, 
the pointer, the bulldog, the greyhound, the hound, 
the terrier, the cur, with many others. The larger fort 
are ufed as a guard ; the lefs for fport: 
Such finding rogues as thefe footh every paflion : 
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks 
With ev’ry gale and vary of their maders, 
As knowing nought, like dogs, but following. Shakefpeare. 
A condellation called Sirius, or Canicula, riling and fet- 
ting with the fun during the canicular days, or dog-days. 
—Among the fouthern condellations, two there are who 
bear the name of the dog-, the one in fixteen degrees la¬ 
titude, containing on the left thigh a dar of the fird 
magnitude, ufually called Procyon, or Anticanus. Brown. 
It parts the twins and crab, the dog divides, 
And Argo’s keel that broke the frothy tides. Creech - 
An andiron. A reproachful name for a man.—Beware 
of dogs, beware of evil workers. Phil. ii. 2.—It is ufed 
as the term for the male of feveral genera of animals : 
as, the dog fox, the dog otter, &c. — If ever I thank any 
man, I’ll thank you ; but that they call compliments is 
like the encounter of two dog apes. Shakefpeare. 
The fame ill tade of fenfe will ferve to join 
Dog foxes in the yoke, and flteer the fwine. Drydcn. 
Dog is a particle added to any thing, to mark degeneracy; 
as, dog rofe, &c. 
To give or fend to the Dogs ; to throw away. To go to 
the Dogs; to be ruined, dedroyed, or devoured: 
Had whole Colepeper’s wealth been hops and hogs, 
Could he himfelf have fent it to the dogs ? Pope. 
Naturalids have ufually affigned the gift of fuperior 
intelligence, among brute creatures, to the horfe, the 
elephant, and the dog; but without difparagement to 
the noble indindfs and wonderful docility of the two 
former animals, we might judly give pre-eminence to the 
latter. The amazing fagacity of the dog, his gratitude, 
his unfliaken fidelity, that acute fenfe of fhame which 
often betrays his faults, and that confcioufnefs of good 
defert with which he comes to claim the reward of his 
fervices, are circumdances of felf-convidtion, of thought, 
or intelligence, very nearly refembling that which we 
obferve in the human character. Thefe qualities, toge¬ 
ther with his great utility for various purpofes, have ren- 
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dered him the early attendant and common favourite of 
man. Every anecdote therefore that tends to elucidate the 
nature and powers of this animal, mud be particularly 
intereding to the lovers of natural hidory. Thofe that 
follow are completely authentic, which is, perhaps, one 
of the fird recommendations to anecdotes of this nature. 
M. la Valee, in his Journey through the Departments 
of France, publifhed in 1792, gives the following curious 
account of the manner in which the country people, in 
the neighbourhood of Peronne and Doulens, had trained 
their dogs to elude the vigilance of the officers of the 
revenue. At night, thefe animals were laden, each with 
a parcel of goods proportioned to its' fize; except one 
alone, who was their leader, went without any burden. 
A crack of a whip was the fignal for them to fet out. 
The leader travelled at a little didance before the red ; 
and, if he perceived the traces of any dranger, he re¬ 
turned to the other dogs ; thefe either took a diderent 
way, or, if the danger was prelling, concealed themfelves 
behind the hedges, and lay clofe till the patrol had palled. 
When they arrived at the habitation of their mailer’s 
afibciate, they hid themfelves in the neighbouring fields 
and hedges, while their leader went to the houfe, and 
leratched at the door, or barked, till he was admitted, 
when he lay quietly down, as at home: by this the 
fnmggler knew that the caravan was come ; and, if the 
coad was clear, he went out, when he gave a lcud whidle, 
and the dogs came running to him from their feveral 
hiding-places! 
Peltier, in his Annals of Paris, No. 164, for December 
1798, records the following anecdote : At the beginning 
of the revolution, a dog went daily to the parade before 
the palace of the Thuilleries, thrud himfelf between the 
legs of the muficians, marched with them, hailed with 
them, and, after the parade, difappeared until the next 
morning; when he refumed this occupation. The con- 
dant recurrence of this dog, and the pleafure which he 
feemed to take in the mulic, made him a favourite with 
the band, who nick-named him Parade. One gave him 
food to-day, another to-morrow ; and he underdood, by 
a dight fignal, and a word or two, whom he was to follow 
for his dinner: after which, faithful to his independence, 
the dog always withdrew, in fpite of any careffes or 
threats. Sometimes he went to the Opera, fometimes to 
the Comedie Italienne, and fometimes to the Theatre 
Feydeau ; in each of which houfes, he found his way to 
the orchedra, and would lie down filently in one corner 
of it until the performance was over. “ I know not 
(fays Peltier) whether this dog be now alive : but I 
know many muficians to whom his name, his figure, and 
the fingularity of his habits, are perfe&ly familiar.” 
In Petit’s Campaign of Italy, under the Chief Conful 
Bonaparte, publifhed in 1800, we have the following 
anecdote, which places this animal in the mod engaging 
light: “ In traverfing the Alps over the mountain Great 
St. Bernard, many people peri fit among the almod inac- 
ceffible rocks, whofe fummits are covered with eternal 
fnow. At the time we croifed them, the chapel of the 
monadery of St. Bernard was filled with dead bodies, 
which the dogs had difeovered, fuffocated and benumbed, 
under the fnow. With what emotions of pleafure did I 
carefs thefe dogs, fo ufeful to travellers! how can one 
fpeak of them without being moved by their charitable 
indindt 1 Notwithdanding the paucity of our eatables, 
there was not a French foldier who did not manifed an 
eagernefs to give them fome bifeuit, fome bread, and 
even a fhare of their meat. Morning and evening thefe 
dogs go out on difeovery; and if, in the ntidd of their 
wandering courfes, the echo of fome unfortunate creature 
ready to peridi reaches their attentive ears, they run to¬ 
wards thofe who call out, exprefs their joy, and feern to 
bid the fufferer take courage till they have been to pro¬ 
cure affidance; in fadt, they haden back to the convent, 
and with an air of inquietude and fadnefs, announce in 
a very difcernible manner what they have feen. In that 
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