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Having a face resembling that of a dog. Dog-faced baboon (Zoöl.), any baboon of the genus Cynocephalus. See Drill.

A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n.,

Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.

Inhuman; cruel. Shak.

Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.

Extremely weary. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a doge.[R.]

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.