Dog fancier
(Dog" fan`cier) One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals
in dogs.
Dogfish
(Dog"fish`) n. (Zoöl.)
1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.
The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American
smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, or horned dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
abundant on both sides of the Atlantic.
2. The bowfin See Bowfin.
3. The burbot of Lake Erie.
Dog-fox
(Dog"-fox`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6. Sir W. Scott. (b) The
Arctic or blue fox; — a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.
Dogged
(Dog"ged) a. [Fron. Dog.]
1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.]
The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged.
Sir W. Scott. 2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work.
Doggedly
(Dog"ged*ly), adv. In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
Doggedness
(Dog"ged*ness), n.
1. Sullenness; moroseness. [R.]
2. Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.
Dogger
(Dog"ger) n. [D., fr. dogger codfish, orig. used in the catching of codfish.] (Naut.) A two-
masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
Dogger
(Dog"ger), n. A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and
iron.
Doggerel
(Dog"ger*el) a. [OE. dogerel.] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he.
Chaucer. Doggerel
(Dog"ger*el), n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Doggerel like that of Hudibras.
Addison.
The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers.
Macaulay.
