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canine, a. (n.)|ˈkeɪnaɪn, ˈkæn-, kəˈnaɪn|
[ad. L. canīnus, f. canis dog; cf. F. canin, 16th c.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of, a dog; having the nature or qualities of a dog.
1623Cockeram, Canine, doggish. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. Apol. 551 That Canine eloquence must needs sound harsh to their ears. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 335 As the Dog..Raving he foams, and howls, and barks, and bites..His Nature, and his Actions all Canine. 1870L'Estrange Miss Mitford I. iv. 101 Greyhounds, the most graceful and the most attached of all the canine race.
b. of appetite, hunger, etc.: Voracious, greedy, as that of a dog. canine appetite, canine hunger: the disease bulimy. canine madness: hydrophobia.
1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3) Canine, dogge-hungry. 1648Hunting of Fox 21 The Sectaries have canine Appetites. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 6 ⁋6 The dreadful symptom of canine madness. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 391 Characteristic marks of canine madness. 1818T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 308 A canine appetite for reading.
c. canine letter = dog's letter.
1886Phelps & Forbes-Robertson Life S. Phelps 15 He attached considerable importance to the canine letter, and often said that the rolling of the r [etc.]. 1890Howells Shadow of Dream 24 ‘Hermia’ said Faulkner, sounding the canine letter in her name with a Western strength.
2. canine tooth: one of the four strong pointed teeth, situated one on each side of the upper and lower jaw, between the incisors and the molars; a cuspidate tooth. (In some animals the canine teeth are immensely developed and become tusks.)
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xx. (1495) 124 Houndes wyth the sayd teeth that hyghte Canini gnawe bones.] 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 113 They whose teeth hang over their canine teeth, are also adjudged railers. 1626Bacon Sylva §752 The Teeth are in Men of three kinds, Sharp, as the Fore-teeth; Broad, as the..Molar-teeth, or Grinders; and Pointed-teeth, or Canine, which are between both. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 478/1 The canine teeth [of the Carnivora] are..preeminently strong, long and sharp.
3. Anat. and Phys. canine fossa: a depression in the upper jaw-bone behind the canine prominence. canine laugh: the expression of the face in sneering (so called because similar to that of a dog's face in snarling), risus sardonicus. canine muscle: the levator anguli oris, which in the dog raises the corner of the mouth in snarling. canine prominence or canine ridge: a ridge on the upper jaw-bone caused by the fang of the canine tooth.
1836–39Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 223/1 From the inner part of the canine fossa. Ibid. 207/2 The canine ridge, which corresponds to the socket of the canine tooth.
B. n.
a. = Canine tooth (see 2). Also in comb., as canine-shaped adj.
1835Swainson Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds §71 (L.) The more perfect quadrupeds have three sorts of teeth, termed incisors, canines, and molars. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 7 The absence of canines is characteristic of the order.
b. A dog (sometimes joc.).
1869E. Farmer Scrap Book (ed. 6) 61 As though ‘Hullah’ had tutored each canine to sing. 1886Pall Mall G. 3 Apr. 13/2 A better-favoured canine was sacrificed. 1947J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xii. 83 The little dogs rush in barking, as only such small canines can. 1969Nature 18 Oct. 244/1 Rabies is believed to have originated as a disease of wild canines.
Add:[A.] [3.] canine parvovirus (Vet. Sci.), a parvovirus that causes a frequently fatal disease in dogs, characterized by diarrhoea and vomiting; also, the disease itself.
1972Andrewes & Pereira Viruses Vertebr. (ed. 3) xii. 286 Canine Parvovirus. A ‘minute virus of canines’ was isolated from dog faeces by Binn et al. (1970). It was cultivable only in a line of dog cells. 1979Maclean's Mag. 9 Apr. 49/1 Jim Henry is one of a handful of Canadian pathologists who have been working with canine parvovirus, the lethal disease that killed Kipp. 1984G. Siegl in K. I. Berns Parvoviruses ix. 373 During the original outbreaks of canine parvovirus disease in 1978 acute enteritis occurred in dogs of almost any age. |