truffle dog

Any dog trained to find truffles by their smell. "The truffle-dog is nothing more nor le than a bad small-sized poodle, and is never, or very rarely, met with under the designation truffle -dog. Its cultivation is due to the existence of truffles, which it is employed to discover when they are lying in the ground by the help of its acute nose." - V. Shaw : Book of the Dog , p. 197. truffle-worm, s. Entom.: (See extract.) "The truffle is subject to the attacks of many insects; a species of Leiodes deposits its ova in it, which in the pupa state feed upon the substance of the truffle; in this state they are called trufle -worms."-Eng. Cyclop., s. v. Tube race a. truf-filed (le as el), a . [English truffl (e); -ed.] Furnished, cooked, or stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey. trŭg, s. [A variant of trough (q. v.).] 1. A hod for mortar. ( Bailey .) *2. A measure of wheat, as much as was carried in a trough, three trugs making two bushels. 3. A kind of wooden ve el for carrying vegetables, . ( Prov .) *4. A concubine, a trull.