Dandie

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of a breed of small terriers;

— called also Dandie Dinmont.

II. Dandie ·add. ·noun One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border.

III. Dandie ·add. ·noun In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

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