dog letter, dogs letter

The letter R, from its sound; also called Canine letter. IMG:content-0317.png:[blocks in formation] "A wretched kind of a dog - looked fellow."- L'Estrange : Visions of Quevedo , ch. i. ( Davies .) dog-mad, a. Like a dog affected with hydrophobia; quite mad, rabid. "He was troubled with a disease, reverse to that called the stinging of the tarantula; and would run dog -mad, at the noise of music, especially a pair of bag-pipes."- Swift : Tale of a Tub , § 2.