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The office or dignity of a doge.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry. Dr. Prior. Dogberry tree (Bot.), the dogwood.

The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. Knight.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell.

The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

Dogate. Wright.

Without a doge. Byron.

A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

Sullenness; moroseness. [R.]

A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer.

A sailor belonging to a dogger.

Docket. See Docket. [Obs.]

Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal. -- Dog"*gish*ly, adv. -- Dog"gish*ness, n.

Same as Doggerel.

A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment. Dryden.