Chapter Doctrinists to Dog of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Italian proverb the dog is called that of the Vicar Arlotto. (See Chien.)
   Mauthe dog. (See Mauthe.)
   Sir Isaac Newton's, Diamond (q.v.).
   Dog of Montargis. The same as Aubry's dog. A picture of the combat was for many years preserved in the castle of Montargis. (See Aubry's Dog.)
   Orion's dogs were Arctophonos (bearkiller), and Ptoophagos (Ptoon-glutton.) (Ptoon is in Bœotia.)
   Pope's dog was named Bounce.
   Punch's dog is Toby.
   Richard II.'s greyhound was named Mathe. It deserted the king and attached itself to Bolingbroke.
   Roderick the Goth's dog was named Theron.
   Rupert's (Prince) dog, killed at Marston Moor, was named Boy.
   Scott's (Sir Walter) dogs: his favourite deerhound was named Maida; his jet-black greyhound was called Hamlet. He also had two Dandy Dinmont terriers.
   Seven Sleepers (Dog of the). This famous dog, admitted by Mahomet to heaven, was named Katmir. The seven noble youths that fell asleep for 309 years had a dog, which accompanied them to the cavern in which they were walled up. It remained standing for the whole time, and neither moved from the spot, ate, drank, nor slept. (Sale's Koran, xviii., notes.)
   Tristran's dog was named Leon or Lion.
   Ulysses' dog, Argos, recognised him after his return from Troy, and died of joy.
   (3) DOGS, models of their species:
   Argoss (a Russian terrier); Baroness Cardiff (a Newfoundland); Black Prince (a mastiff); Bow-wow (a schipperke); Corney (a bull-terrier); Countess of Warwick (a great Dane); Dan O'Connor (an Irish water-spaniel); Dude (a pug); Fascination (a black cocker-spaniel); Fritz (a French poodle); Judith (a bloodhound); Kilcree (a Scotch terrier); King Lud (a bulldog); King of the Heather (a dandie-dinmont); Mikado (a Japanese spaniel); Olga (a deerhound); Romeo (a King Charles spaniel); Royal Krueger (a beagle); Scottish Leader (a smooth-coated St.Bernard); Sensation (a pointer); Sir Bedivere (a rough-coated St. Bernard); Spinaway (a greyhound); Toledo Blade (an English setter); Woodmansterne Trefoil (a collie).
   (4) DOG in phrases:
   A dog in a doublet. A bold, resolute fellow. In Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs were employed for hunting the wild boar, and these dogs were dressed in a kind of buff doublet buttoned to their bodies. Rubens and Sneyders have represented several in their pictures. A false friend is called a dog in one's doublet.
   Between dog and wolf. The hour of dusk. "Entre chien et loup. "
   St. Roch and his dog. Two inseparables. "Toby and his dog." One is never seen without the other.
   They lead a cat and dog life. Always quarrelling.
   To lead the life of a dog. To live a wretched life, or a life of debauchery.
   (5) DOG, used metaphorically or symbolically:
   The dog. Diogenes, the Cynic (B.C. 412-323). When Alexander went to see him, the young King of Macedonia introduced himself with these words: "I am Alexander, surnamed the Great," to which the philosopher replied: "And I am Diogenes, surnamed the Dog." The Athenians raised to his memory a pillar of Parian marble, surmounted by a dog. (See Cynic.)
   Dog of God. So the Laplanders call the bear. The Norwegians say it "has the strength of ten men and the wit of twelve." They never presume to speak of it by its proper appellation, guouztija, lest it should revenge the insult on their flocks and herds, but they call it Möddaaigja (the old man with a fur cloak).
   A dead dog. Something utterly worthless. A phrase used two or three times in the Bible. (See (6).)
   A dirty dog. In the East the dog is still held in abhorrence, as the scavenger of the streets. "Him that dieth in the city shall the dogs eat" (1 Kings xiv. 11). The French say, Crotté comme un barbet (muddy or dirty as a poodle), whose hair, being very long, becomes filthy with mud and dirt. Generally speaking, "a dirty dog" is one morally filthy, and is applied to those who talk and act nastily. Mere skin dirt is quite another matter, and those who are so defiled we call dirty pigs.
   A surly dog. A human being of a surly temper, like a surly dog.
   Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing? (2 Kings viii. 12, 13). Hazael means, "Am I such a brute as to set on fire the strongholds of Israel, slay the young men with the sword, and dash their children to the ground, as thou, Elijah, sayest I shall do when I am king?"
   Sydney Smith being asked if it was true that he was about to sit to Landseer, the animal painter, for his portrait, replied, in the words of Hazael, "What! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?"
   The Thracian dog. Zoilus.

"Like curs, our critics haunt the poet's feast,
And feed on scraps refused by every guest:
From the old Thracian dog they learned the way
To snarl in want, and grumble o'er their prey."
Pitt: To Mr. Spence.

   Dogs of war. The horrors of war, especially famine, sword, and fire.

"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Até by his side, come hot from hell.
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice,
Cry `Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, iii. 1.

   (6) DOG (in Scripture language, whether dead or living, is a most degrading expression: "After whom is the King of Israel come out? After a dead dog?"(1 Sam. xxiv. 14.) "Beware of dogs" (Phil. iii. 2), i.e. sordid, noisy professors. Again, "Without are dogs" (Rev. xxii. 15), i.e. false teachers and sinners, who