Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse grass, Agropyrum caninum, resembling couch-grass, but with fibrous roots and longer awns. Also dog's-grass, dog-wheat.
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Examples
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According to these philosophers, the dog-grass and the oak, the mite and the elephant, man, the elements and stars, obey invariable laws, which God, as immutable, has established from all eternity.
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It would appear, however, that it is rather made for the animals who nibble it than for man, to whom dog-grass and trefoil are useless.
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At another time, to accomplish a similar object, a plough, having a colter and sock of rams 'horns, was prepared, and a yoke of toads, instead of oxen, with dog-grass traces, made to draw it twice round the farmer's fields.
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Now, in December, the Chartreuse was entirely abandoned, except by a housekeeper, a sacristan and a lone monk, the last offshoot of the community -- a kind of apothecary, whose stock-in-trade was limited to guimauve and dog-grass.
Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas
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There were no trees -- only here and there a clump of cactus or chaparral, a tuft of dog-grass or a few patches of dogwood.
Further Foolishness Stephen Leacock 1906
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'A little dog-grass won't do _me_ any harm, 'said Jock;' I'll come too. '
The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895
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Don replied that he was rather out of sorts, and was going down to a certain lane for a dose of dog-grass.
The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895
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In order that instruction may be useful, in order that it may even be received, it is necessary, first of all, that the pupil should be free, just as, before planting a piece of ground, we clear it of thorns and dog-grass.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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They are like dog-grass, which springs up again and again, nurtured by the ignorance of our rural population.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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Puggy! hunt about, my man, and find some dog-grass.
My Lady's Money Wilkie Collins 1856
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