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• dogs

  To go to the dogs. To go to destruction; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured.--Johnson. Had whol...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Dog's-bane

  ·noun ·see <<Dogbane>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dog's-ear

  ·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dog's-tongue

  ·noun Hound's-tongue. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dog's Head

  In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bull dogs

  Pistols. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dog's portion

  A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer o...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dog's rig

  To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dog's soup

  Rain water. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dog's wife

  Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dog's tongue

  n. name given to the plant Cynoglossum suaveolens, R. Br., N.O. Asperifoliae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dog's bane

  (Apocynum androsæmifolium.) The common name of a shrub, which grows along the road-side and borders ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dog's-body

  Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• dog's tail

  A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• fog-dogs

  Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• ring-dogs

  Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sling-dogs

  In timber lifting, a dog is an iron implement with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other, in wh...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Dog's-tail grass

  ·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dog's Head in the Pot

  A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court

  Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.