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Bot.: Scrophularia can in a, a kind of Figwort. dog's-tail, s. The constellation Ursa Minor. dog's-tail gra , s. Bot.: Cynosurus cristatus. [CYNOSURUS.] dog's-tansy, s. Bot.: Potentilla an serin a. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; with long, smooth sheaths. dog's-tooth spar, dog-tooth spar, s. Min.: The scalenohedral form of calc-spar, so called from the form of the crystals, which remotely resemble the teeth of a dog. dog's-tooth violet, s. Bot.: A bulbous plant, Erythronium dens can is , a native of the southern parts of Europe. It bears a single large, lily-like, purple flower. The leaves, two in number, are smooth, and spotted with purple. dog, v. t. [DOG, 8.] 1. To follow or hunt after insidiously, like a dog; to track the footsteps or movements of. "I have dogged him like his murderer." -Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , iii. 2. 2. To follow or attend closely. "I fear the dread events that dog them both." *3. To furnish with dogs. Milton: Comus , 405. "Instead of manning, they dogged their capitol."- Ful ler: Worthies; Somerset, ii. 276. ( Davies.) *4. To bind, fasten, or tie together. "Pd for iiijli of leade to dog the stones together of ye steple wyndowe." - Records of St. Michael's , Bishop Stort ford , 1591 (ed. 1882), p. 65. *dōg-al, a . [Low Lat. dogalis , for ducal is , from dux (gen it. ducis )=a leader, a ruler.] Pertaining or relating to a doge (q. v.). dō-ga-na, s . (Ital.) A custom-house. [DOUANE.] dog'-āte, s . [Eng. dog(e); -ate.] The position, office, or rank of a doge. dog-bāne, dog'ş-bāne, s. [Eng. dog, and ban a from its being considered poisonous to dogs.] 1. Singular : (1) ( Of both forms): The genus Apocynum (q. v.). (2) ( Of the form dog's bane): Aconitum cynocto num, a ranunculaceous plant. 2. Pl . ( Dogbanes ): The name given by Lindley to the order Apocynaceae (q. v.). dog-bee, s. [Eng. dog, and bee.] 1. A fly troublesome to dogs. 2. A male bee. dog-belt, s. [Eng. dog, and belt.] Coal-mining: A term applied to a belt of strong, broad leather, worn round the waist, to which a chain is attached for the purpose of drawing the dans or sledges in the lower workings. The chain pa es between the legs of the men. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f IMG:content-0328.png:[blocks in formation] dogberry-tree, s. Bot.: The Dogwood (q. v.). Dog-běr-rỹ (2), s. [For derivation see def.] An ignorant, conceited, but good-natured constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing , whose great ambition consisted in wishing to be "writ down an a " (iv. 2). From Dogberry's propensity to meddle, the name is often given to officious police men; while his ignorance and conceit have caused it to be applied to incapable and overbearing magistrates. dog-cheap, a . [Eng. dog , and cheap . According to Prof. Skeat, dog represents Sw. dial. dog =very.] Extremely cheap, dirt-cheap (q. v.). "Good store of harlots, say you, and dog cheap!"_ Dryden: Spanish Friar , i. 1.