单词 | dog-toothed |
释义 | dog-toothedadj. 1. With teeth like a dog; (also) showing the teeth like a dog. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. v. 995 The Churchia is as bigge as a small Conie, tawnie, sharpe-snowted, dog-toothed, long-tayled and eared like a Rat. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! viii. 138 They saw the frail bark spinning and leaping amid the muzzles of the alligators, and the huge dog-toothed trout. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 63 A dog-toothed laugh laughed Reuben Paine. 1991 P. A. Sogivalu Matagi Tokelau xvii. 194 Large fish like barracuda, jacks and dog-toothed tuna. 2007 W. Martin Lost Constit. 75 One of those dog-toothed smiles—all lips and choppers, not a bit of motion around the eyes. 2. Decorated with dog-tooth moulding or ornament (see dog-tooth n. 4a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > other ornaments raffled1681 frosted1728 oviculated1789 voluted1810 antefixal1844 arborescent1849 dog-toothed1849 finialled1850 floreted1856 historied1936 1849 Newcastle Courant 11 May (Electronic text) An elegant little chapel of a style of architecture different from any hitherto noticed at Fountains, viz., the enriched dog toothed early English. 1858 Rep. 27th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1857 77 Their surface ornamented with stars in relief, not unlike the dog-toothed ornament of early English architecture. 1890 Leeds Mercury 4 Oct. (Electronic text) A Norman circular window, with the remains of a dog-toothed capital and some sculptured heads. 1910 H. M. Pratt Cathedral Churches of Eng. 46 The toothed ornament, or dog-toothed, a development of the Norman nailhead..freely used and in a variety of designs;..continuous, as on a moulding, or detached. 1937 F. G. Marcham Hist. of Eng. v. 106 They learned..how, with the triangular dog-toothed ornament, to give a touch of vigour and movement to the decoration. 1980 I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers ii. 106 The church was..a little grey sturdy building with thick Norman pillars and a narrow dog-toothed doorway. 2002 E. Lord Knights Templar in Brit. (2004) ii. 45 A seven-arched Norman doorway with dog-toothed decoration. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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