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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.

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.

Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

A dogmatist.

The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology.

The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion. The self-importance of his demeanor, and the dogmatism of his conversation. Sir W. Scott.

One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles. I expect but little success of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. Glanvill.

magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance. The pride of dogmatizing schools. Blackmore.

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher. Hammond.

The character, or individuality, of a dog.