dog daisy (dogda "zi)

The field-daisy. [North. Eng.] dog-days (dog'dāz), n. pl. A part of the year about the time of the heliacal rising of the dog-star. Various dates, from July 3d to August 15th, 1719 have been a igned for the first dog-day, and various du rations, from 30 to 54 days. Pliny says they began with the heliacal rising of Procyon, which took place, he says, July 19th, N. S.; and this date has been widely accepted. But he also says the sun was then entering Leo, which rule, making the dog-days begin July 23d, has also been used. Hippo crates (450 B. C.) says they were in the hottest and most unhealthy part of summer. If the season was of Babylonian origin, it would originally probably have been in early summer. Perhaps they are now most usually reckoned from July 3d to August 11th, inclusive. I should have look'd as soon for frost In the Dog - days , or another inundation, As hop'd this strange conversion above miracle. Beau. and Fl ., Woman-Hater, iii. 1. I generally lay aside the dog - days and the hot time of the summer for the teaching of this part of the exercise. Add is on, The Fan Exercise. dog-dravet (dog'drāv), n. A kind of sea-fish mentioned in early charters. Hamersly . dogdrawt (dog'dra), n. In old Eng . forest law, an apprehension of an offender against the venison in the forest when he was found drawing after the deer by the scent of a led hound, especially after a deer which he had wounded with cro bow or longbow.