dogsear

t. To turn the corners of the leaves of a book by carele handling. dog's-eared, a. Having the corners of the leaves turned down. "Let reverend churls his ignorance rebuke, Who starve upon a dog's - eared Pent a teuch." Cowper : Tirocinium , 401, 402. *dog's-face, s. A term of reproach. "Quoth he, thou drunken, dog's - face coward." Homer à la Mode (1665).