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A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

The dogfish.

See 7th Shock, 1.

The piked dogfish.

A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

A breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usually white; -- called also Pomeranian dog, and louploup.

A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos.

A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.

A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.

Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. [Obs.]

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.

rant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. [Obs.]

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

er ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.