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Dog's-tail grass.

An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]

A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. [Written also grayhound.]

To show the teeth, as a dog; to shsrl.

To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.

A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry.

To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson.

es of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc.

A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.

The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.

havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant. Shak. Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! Shak.

The hip of the dog-rose. [Obs.]

ensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.

ring. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used by the Indians. -- Hemp agrimony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe (Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset. -- Hemp nettle, a plant of the genus Galeop…

See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.

The wild dog-rose.

A cry to set dogs on. Shak.

The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.