đoily, đoiley

& a. [Dut. dwaal a towel (q. v.). ( Skeat.) From the name of the first maker, a Mr. Doyley, "a very respectable wareold house next to Hodsoll's, the banker, from the time of Queen Anne." ( Notes and Queries.)] pointed, and somewhat resemble the teeth of a dog. They are also called Canines or Canine teeth (q.v.). "The best instruments for dividing of herbs are incisor-teeth; for dividing of flesh, sharp-pointed or dogteeth."-Arbuthnot: On Aliments. B. As adjective : Arch.: The same as DoG'S-TOOTH, a. (q. v.) dog'-trick, s. [Eng. dog, and trick.] 1. An ill turn, an ill-natured practical joke "Learn better manners, or I shall serve you a dog trick ." -Dryden : Don Sebastian , i. 2. 2. A foolish, silly action; silline . "Puling sonnets, whining elegies, the dog - trickes of love."- Taylor : Works (1630). dog-trot, s. [Eng. dog, and trot.] A gentle, easy trot, like that of a dog; a jog-trot. "This said, they both advanced, and rode A dogtrot through the bawling crowd." Butler: Hudibras . dog'-vāne, s . [Eng. dog , and vane .] Naut .: A small vane, made of cork and feathers, the wheel when the ship is sailing on a wind. placed on the weather-rail as a guide to the man at dog-watch, s . [Eng. dog , and watch .] Naut .: A name given to each of two watches of two hours each instead of four, adopted for the purpose of varying the hours of watches kept by each part of the crew during the twenty-four hours, otherwise the same watch would invariably fall to the same men. In order to obviate this the watches are arranged thus: 8 to 12 P. M. ( a ); 12 to 4 A. M. ( b ); 4 to 8 A. M. (a); 8 to 12 A. M. (b): 12 to 4 P. M. (a); 4 to 6 P. M. ( b ), dog-watch; 6 to 8 P. M. ( a ), dogwatch; 8 to 12 P. M. (b), and so on. dog-wood, s. [Eng. dog, and wood.] Botany: A common name for plants of the genus Cornus, but more especially applied to Cornus sanguine a. [CORNUS.] Dr. Prior says that it is "not so named from the animal, but from skewers being made of it," while Loudon thinks the name alludes to the employment of a wash, prepared from the leaves and branches, for dogs afflicted with mange. (Britten & Holland .) The wood is hard, and is sometimes used for butchers' skewers, toothpicks, . The fruit is black, about the size of a currant, very bitter, and yields an oil used in France for burning in lamps and for soap making. The follow ing are the best-known varieties: 1. Cornus florida : Is a common American shrub, growing 6-10 feet in height, and bearing beautiful white clusters of flowers, enlivening the hedges and bush of the warmer portions of this country. It is productive of a bark much valued as an anti-periodic in ague, ., and its wood, which is hard, white, and close grained, is useful in various ways. One unique use of its small branches is to form tooth IMG:content-0337.jpg:[blocks in formation] States "dip" snuff. The brush is formed by chewing the end of a stick of dogwood until the fibers of the wood separate and a ume a brush-like form. 2. Euonymus europe us : By analogy with its other names, such as Skewer-wood, the meaning here seems the same as in 1. But Loudon says, "It is called dogwood because a decoction of its leaves was used to wash dogs to free them from vermin;" and this derivation receives some support from another of its synonyms, Louse-berry Tree. ( Britten & Holland ) 4. Prunus pad us . ( Britten & Holland .) 5. Viburnum opulus . 6. Solanum dulcamara : ( Britten & Holland .) (1) Black Dogwood : Bot.: Prunus pad us. (2) White Dogwood: Bot.: Viburnum opulus. (Britten & Holland.) dogwood-tree, s. IMG:content-0338.jpg:[blocks in formation] Tasmanian Dogwood : Bot.: Bedford i a salicin a , a small tree of the Composite family, seldom exceeding 15 feet in beight. Its wood is hard, of a beautiful grain, and used for cabinet work. ( Smith .) A. As substantive : 1. A species of woolen stuff. 2. A small napkin used at de ert to place gla es, ., on. *B. As adj .: Made of the woolen stuff so called. "Some doiley petticoats and manteaus we have." Dryden: Kind Keeper , iv. 1. dô-ing, *do-ynge, pr. par., a. & s. [Do, v.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip . adj .: (See the IMG:content-0339.png:[blocks in formation]