Dog
A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
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Dog Quotations
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey Hepburn
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
Dog Translations
dog in Afrikaans is hond
dog in Danish is hund
dog in Dutch is hond
dog in Finnish is koira
dog in French is clebs, chien
dog in German is Hund
dog in Italian is cane
dog in Latin is canis
dog in Norwegian is hund
dog in Spanish is perro
dog in Swedish is hund
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