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Definition of Dogteeth
1. dogtooth [n] - See also: dogtooth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogteeth
Literary usage of Dogteeth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers by George Edmund Street, Georgiana Goddard King (1916)
"The dogteeth and the carving of the rose are quite consistent in character ...
The dogteeth are well developed, and the roses are similar in character to ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1892)
"dogteeth, I. xxiii. 10. hawthorn, II. iv. 44, 49, 50. „ „ pier of nave, I. viii.
17. „ „ porch, I. xx. 14. „ „ shafts at, I. viii. 30. ..."
3. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"or leaved dogteeth have been the favorites, arid that to such ft degree, ...
faced with large flat dogteeth, each about a foot wide in the base, ..."
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
"His curly white mane stood up with rage, and his eyes flamed, and his big dogteeth
glistened, and he was splendid to look at. Old Sea Catch, his father, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"These two gods belonged to the dir-; -' religion of the Iranians, but had until
then been dogteeth t.. the true Zoroastrians; now they were introduced ..."
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