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ing teeth; -- also called tooth ornament. Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, in acute crystals, resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite. -- Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's…

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

Performed; executed; finished.

s and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

To cut to a dovetail.

to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.

To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

h an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier.

In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. -- Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of…