Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 84
Document (n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. -- Paley.
Document (v. t.) To teach; to school. [Obs.]
I am finely documented by my own daughter. -- Dryden.
Document (v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Document (n.) Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) [syn: document, written document, papers].
Document (n.) Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks.
Document (n.) A written account of ownership or obligation.
Document (n.) (Computer science) A computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters [syn: text file, document].
Document (v.) Record in detail; "The parents documented every step of their child's development".
Document (v.) Support or supply with references; "Can you document your claims?"
Document () Any specific type of file produced or edited by a specific application; usually capable of being printed. E.g. "Word document", "Photoshop document", etc.
Document () A term used on some systems (e.g. Intermedia) for a hypertext node. It is sometimes used for a collection of nodes on related topics, possibly stored or distributed as one.
Document () To write documentation on a certain piece of code. (2003-10-25)
Documental (a.) Of or pertaining to instruction. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Documental (a.) Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.
Documental (a.) Relating to or consisting of or derived from documents [syn: documentary, documental].
Documentary (a.) 文件的；依據文件的；（電影、電視等）記錄的；記實的 Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." -- Macaulay. DoD
Documentary (a.) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents [syn: {documentary}, {documental}].
Documentary (a.) Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art" [syn: {objective}, {documentary}].
Documentary (n.) 記錄影片；（電視等的）記錄節目 [C] A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event [syn: {documentary}, {docudrama}, {documentary film}, {infotainment}].
Documentation (n.) <Programming> The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also tree-killer). Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and on-line. A common comment on this predilection is "You can't grep dead trees".
See drool-proof paper, verbiage, treeware. [Jargon File] (2003-10-25)
Documentation (n.) The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also {tree-killer}). Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and on-line. A common comment on this predilection is ? You can't {grep} dead trees?. See {drool-proof paper}, {verbiage}, {treeware}.
Documentation (n.) 文件 Confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence [syn: {documentation}, {certification}, {corroboration}].
Documentation (n.) Program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs [syn: {software documentation}, {documentation}].
Documentation (n.) Documentary validation; "his documentation of the results was excellent"; "the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones" [syn: {documentation}, {support}].
Dod (v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.
Dodd (v. t.) Alt. of Dod.
Doddart (n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.
Dodded (a.) Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn.
Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.
Dodder (v. t. & i.) To shake, tremble, or totter.
Doddered (a.) Shattered; infirm.
Dodecagon (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.
Dodecagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles.
Dodecagynian (a.) Alt. of Dodecagynous.
Dodecagynous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.
Dodecahedral (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.
Dodecahedron (n.) A solid having twelve faces.
Dodecandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.
Dodecandrian (a.) Alt. of Dodecandrous.
Dodecandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.
Dodecane (n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
Dodecastyle (a.) Having twelve columns in front.
Dodecastyle (n.) A dodecastyle portico, or building.
Dodecasyllabic (a.) Having twelve syllables.
Dodecasyllable (n.) A word consisting of twelve syllables.
Dodecatemory (n.) A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Dodge (n.) 躲閃； 託詞，（推託的）妙計 The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice. [Colloq.]
Dodge (v. t.) 閃避，閃身躲開；躲避，巧妙地迴避 To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Dodge (v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. [Colloq.] -- S. G. Goodrich.
Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. -- Coleridge.
Dodge (v. i.) 閃開，躲開；躲避，巧妙地迴避 To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Dodge (n.) An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" [syn: {contrivance}, {stratagem}, {dodge}].
Dodge (n.) A quick evasive movement.
Dodge (n.) A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery [syn: {dodge}, {dodging}, {scheme}].
Dodge (v.) Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; "The child dodged the teacher's blow".
Dodge (v.) Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd".
Dodge (v.) Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: {hedge}, {fudge}, {evade}, {put off}, {circumvent}, {parry}, {elude}, {skirt}, {dodge}, {duck}, {sidestep}].
Dodge (v.) [ I or T ] 躲閃，避開 To avoid being hit by something by moving quickly to one side.
// He dodged to avoid the hurtling bicycle.
Dodge (v.) [ T ] 回避，逃避 To avoid something unpleasant.
// The Senator dodged questions about his relationship with the actress.
Dodge (n.) [ C ] (Informal) （巧妙而具欺騙性的）逃避 A clever, dishonest way of avoiding something
// They bought another car as a tax dodge (= a way to avoid paying tax).
Dodged (imp. & p. p.) of Dodge.
Dodger (n.) One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
Dodger (n.) A small handbill.
Dodger (n.) See Corndodger.
Dodgery (n.) trickery; artifice.
Dodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dodge.
Dodipate (n.) Alt. of Dodipoll.
Dodipoll (n.) A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.
Dodkin (n.) A doit; a small coin.
Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod.
Dodman (n.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster.
Dodo (n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.
Dodoes (n. pl. ) of Dodo.
Doe (n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
Doe (n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
Doeglic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.
Doegling (n.) The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.
Doer (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
Doer (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
Does () The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.
Doeskin (n.) The skin of the doe.
Doeskin (n.) A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.
Doffed (imp. & p. p.) of Doff.
Doffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doff.
Doff (v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
Doff (v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
Doff (v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Doffer (n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
Compare: Sundog
Sundog (n.) (Meteorol.) (氣象學) 不完整的虹 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.
Sundog (n.) A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also dog and weathergaw.
Compare: Parhelion
Parhelion (n.) (pl. Parhelia) 【氣】幻日（出現於日暈上之光點） A bright spot in the sky appearing on either side of the sun, formed by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals high in the atmosphere.
‘Haloes may be accompanied by a whole array of circumzenithal arcs and parhelion (mock suns).’
Also called M ock sun, S un dog
‘By the riverside he seized on a sign: three suns in the sky (a rare astrological phenomenon known as a parhelion) to inspire in his troops and himself a moment of intense self-belief.’
Dog (n.) (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog {(Canis familiaris).
Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the akita, beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz, terrier, German shepherd, pit bull, Chihuahua, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.)
Dog (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. )
Dog (n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.]
Dog (n.) (Astron.) 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).
Dog (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
Dog (n.) (Mech.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
Dog (n.) (Mech.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
Dog (n.) (Mech.) 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.
Dog (n.) An ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman. [slang]
Dog (n.) A hot dog. [slang]
Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin.
A dead dog, A thing of no use or value. -- 1 Sam. xxiv. 14.
A dog in the manger, An ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to the butis none to him.
Dog ape (Zool.), A male ape.
Do cabbage, or Dog's cabbage (Bot.), A succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum Cynocrambe).
Dog cheap, Very cheap. See under Cheap.
Dog ear (Arch.), An acroterium. [Colloq.]
Dog flea (Zool.), A species of flea ({Pulex+canis"> Dog flea (Zool.), A species of flea ({Pulex canis) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See Flea, and Aphaniptera.
Dog grass (Bot.), A grass ({Triticum caninum"> Dog grass (Bot.), A grass ({Triticum caninum) of the same genus as wheat.
Dog Latin, Barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy.
Dog lichen (Bot.), A kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina"> Dog lichen (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath.
Dog louse (Zool.), A louse that infests the dog, esp. H[ae]matopinus piliferus; another species is Trichodectes latus.
Dog power, A machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning.
Dog salmon (Zool.), A salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the gorbuscha; -- called also holia, and hone.
Dog shark. (Zool.) See Dogfish.
Dog's meat, Meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal.
Dog Star. See in the Vocabulary.
Dog wheat (Bot.), Dog grass.
Dog whelk (Zool.), Any species of univalve shells of the family Nassid[ae], esp. the Nassa reticulata of England.
To give to the dogs, or To throw to the dogs, To throw away as useless. "Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it." -- Shak.
To go to the dogs, To go to ruin; to be ruined.
Dog (v. t.) 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.
I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope.
Your sins will dog you, pursue you. -- Burroughs.
Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. -- South.
Dog (n.) A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night" [syn: dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris].
Dog (n.) A dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman; "she got a reputation as a frump"; "she's a real dog" [syn: frump, dog].
Dog (n.) Informal term for a man; "you lucky dog".
Dog (n.) Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel].
Dog (n.) A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll [syn: frank, frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog, dog, wiener, wienerwurst, weenie].
Dog (n.) A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward [syn: pawl, detent, click, dog].
Dog (n.) Metal supports for logs in a fireplace; "the andirons were too hot to touch" [syn: andiron, firedog, dog, dog-iron].
Dog (v.) Go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track].
Dog (n.) An enhanced version of the Unix cat command that, in addition to outputting the contents of files, can output the data obtained by fetching URLs. It also offers various output options such as line numbering. (2009-06-12)
Dog (n.) Frequently mentioned both in the Old and New Testaments. Dogs were used by the Hebrews as a watch for their houses (Isa. 56:10), and for guarding their flocks (Job 30:1). There were also then as now troops of semi-wild dogs that wandered about devouring dead bodies and the offal of the streets (1 Kings 14:11; 16:4; 21:19, 23; 22:38; Ps. 59:6, 14).
As the dog was an unclean animal, the terms "dog," "dog's head," "dead dog," were used as terms of reproach or of humiliation (1 Sam. 24:14; 2 Sam. 3:8; 9:8; 16:9). Paul calls false apostles "dogs" (Phil. 3:2). Those who are shut out of the kingdom of heaven are also so designated (Rev. 22:15). Persecutors are called "dogs" (Ps. 22:16). Hazael's words, "Thy servant which is but a dog" (2 Kings 8:13), are spoken in mock humility=impossible that one so contemptible as he should attain to such power.
Dog (n.) A well known domestic animal. In almost all languages this word is, a term or name of contumely or reproach. See 3 Bulst. 226; 2 Mod. 260; 1 Leo. 148; and the title action on the case for defamation in the Digests; Minsheu's Dictionary.
Dog (n.) A dog is said at common law to have no intrinsic value, and he cannot therefore be the subject of larceny. 4 Bl. Com. 236; 8 Serg. & Rawle, 571. But the owner has such property in him, that he may maintain trespass for an injury to his dog; "for a man may have property in some things which are of so base nature that no felony can be committed of them, as of a bloodhound or mastiff." 12 H. VIII. 3; 18 H. VIII. 2; 7 Co. 18 a; Com. Dig. Biens, F; 2 Bl. Com. 397; Bac. Ab. Trover, D; F. N. B. 86; Bro. Trespass, pl. 407 Hob. 283; Cro. Eliz. 125; Cro. Jac. 463 2 Bl. Rep.
Dog (n.) Dogs, if dangerous animals, may lawfully be killed, when their ferocity is known to their owner, or in self-defence 13 John. R. 312; 10 John. R. 365; and when bitten by a rabid animal, a dog may be lawfully killed by any one. 13 John. R. 312.
Dog (n.) When a dog, in consequence of his vicious habits, becomes a common nuisance, the owner may be indicted. And when he commits an injury, if the owner had a knowledge of his mischievous propensity, he is liable to an action on the case. Bull. N. P. 77; 2 Str. 1264; Lord Raym. 110. 1 B. & A. 620; 4 Camp. R. 198; 2 Esp. R. 482; 4 Cowen, 351; 6 S. & R. 36; Addis. R. 215; 1 Scam. 492 23 Wend 354; 17 Wend. 496; 4 Dev. & Batt. 146.
Dog (n.) A man has a right to keep a dog to guard his premises, but not to put him at the entrance of his house, because a person coming there on lawful business may be injured by him, and this, though there may be another entrance to the house. 4 C. & P. 297; 6 C. & P. 1. But if a dog be chained, and a visitor so incautiously go near him that he is bitten, he has no right of action against the owner. 3 Chit. Bl. 154, n. 7. Vide Animal; Knowledge; Scienter.
Dog (n.) A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
Dogal (a.) Of or pertaining to a doge. [R.]
Dogate (n.) The office or dignity of a doge.
Dogbane (n.) (Bot.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
Dogbane (n.) Any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root.
Dog bee (n.) A male or drone bee. -- Halliwell.
Dogberry (n.) (Bot.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry. -- Dr. Prior.
Dogberry tree (Bot.), The dogwood.
Dogbolt (n.) (Gun.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. -- Knight.
Dog-brier (n.) (Bot.) The dog-rose.
Dogcart (n.) 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. Dog day
Dogcart (n.) A cart drawn by a dog.
Dog day (n.) Alt. of Dogday
Dogday (n.) One of the dog days.
Dogday cicada (Zool.), A large American cicada ({Cicada pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer. Dog days
Dog days, Dog-days (ph.) 大熱天；三伏天；不利時期；淡季 A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer; metaphorically, a period of inactivity.
Syn: dog days, canicule, canicular days.
Note: The conjunction of the rising of the Dog Star with the rising of the sun was regarded by the ancients as one of the causes of the sultry heat of summer, and of the maladies which then prevailed. But as the conjunction does not occur at the same time in all latitudes, and is not constant in the same region for a long period, there has been much variation in calendars regarding the limits of the dog days. The astronomer Roger Long states that in an ancient calendar in Bede (died 735) the beginning of dog days is placed on the 14th of July; that in a calendar prefixed to the Common Prayer, printed in the time of Queen Elizabeth, they were said to begin on the 6th of July and end on the 5th of September; that, from the Restoration (1660) to the beginning of New Style (1752), British almanacs placed the beginning on the 19th of July and the end on the 28th of August; and that after 1752 the beginning was put on the 30th of July, the end on the 7th of September. Some English calendars now put the beginning on July 3d, and the ending on August 11th. A popular American almanac of the present time (1890) places the beginning on the 25th of July, and the end on the 5th of September.
Dog days (n.) The hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity [syn: dog days, canicule, canicular days].
Dogdraw (n.) (Eng. Forest Law) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. -- Cowell.
Doge (n.) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Doge (n.) Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Dog-eared (a.) Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book ; as, an old book with dog-eared pages.
Note: Making a page dog-eared is sometimes done deliberately to mark a location in a book.
Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. -- Ld. Mansfield.
Dog-eared (a.) Worn down, shabby.
Syn: eared.
Dog-eared (a.) Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down" -- Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: dog-eared, eared].
Dogeate (n.) Dogate. -- Wright.
Dogeless (a.) Without a doge. -- Byron.
Dog-faced (a.) Having a face resembling that of a dog.
Dog-faced baboon (Zool.), Any baboon of the genus Cynocephalus. See Drill.
Dog fancier (n.) One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
Dogfight (n.) 混戰；空戰 A violent fight between dogs.
Dogfight (n.) A fight between warring fighter planes.
Dogfight (n.) Any rough-and-tumble physical battle.
Dogfight (v. t.) 同……混戰；用……進行空中格鬥 To engage in a dogfight with.
Dogfight (v. i.) 進行混戰；進行空中格鬥 To engage in a dogfight.
Dogfight (n.) A fiercely disputed contest; "their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them"; "a real dogfight for third place"; "a prolonged dogfight over their rival bids for the contract".
Dogfight (n.) Disorderly fighting [syn: {hassle}, {scuffle}, {tussle}, {dogfight}, {rough-and-tumble}].
Dogfight (n.) An aerial engagement between fighter planes.
Dogfight (n.) A violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling).
Dogfight (v.) Arrange for an illegal dogfight.
Dogfight (v.) Engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane.
Compare: Houndfish
Houndfish (n.) (Zool.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish ({Galeus canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.
Note: The European nursehound, or small-spotted dogfish, is Scyllium canicula; the rough houndfish, or large-spotted dogfish, is Scyllium catulus. The name has also sometimes been applied to the bluefish ({Pomatomus saltatrix), and to the silver gar.
Compare: Roussette
Roussette (n.) (Zool.) A fruit bat, especially the large species ({Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
Roussette (n.) (Zool.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.
Compare: Amia
Amia (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
Dogfish (n.) (Zool.) [C]【魚】狗鯊；弓鰭魚；【動】巨頭鯨 A small shark, of many species, of the genera {Mustelus}, {Scyllium}, {Spinax}, etc.
Note: The European spotted dogfishes ({Scyllium catudus}, and {Scyllium 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.
Dogfish (n.) The bowfin ({Amia calva}). See {Bowfin}.
Dogfish (n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.
Compare: Bowfin
Bowfin (n.) (Zool.) A voracious ganoid fish ({Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
Dogfish (n.) Primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: {bowfin}, {grindle}, {dogfish}, {Amia calva}].
Dogfish (n.) Any of several small sharks.
Dog-fox (n.) (Zool.) A male fox. See the Note under {Dog}, n., 6. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dog-fox (n.) (Zool.) The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus {Cynalopex}.
Dogged (imp. & p. p.) of Dog.
Dogged (a.) 頑固的，固執的；頑強的；dog的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.]
The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dogged (a.) Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work ; dogged pursuit.
Dogged (a.) Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding].
Dogged (a.) 下定決心的，堅決的 Very determined to do something, even if it is very difficult.
// Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
Doggedly (adv.) 固執地；頑強地 In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
Doggedly (adv.) With obstinate determination; "he pursued her doggedly" [syn: doggedly, tenaciously].
Doggedness (n.) Sullenness; moroseness. [R.]
Doggedness (n.) Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.
Doggedness (n.) Persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity].
Dogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dog.