Words starting with dog

Words and definitions

Dog means: A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

Dog means: A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.

Dog means: A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.

Dog means: 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 means: An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

Dog means: 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 means: An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.

Dog means: 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.

Dogged means: of Dog

Dogging means: of Dog

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.