Doggish: currish: of a dogge. Canina eloquentia. Quint. Doggish elnquence, practised in depraning of other. Canini dentes. Plin. The eye teeth. Verba canina latrare. Ouid. To rasse spitefully. Caninum prandium, vocatur abstemium. Plaut. A dinner without wine. Caninus appetitus. The hungry fickenesse.

I. Lit.: lac, Ov. Ib. 227; Plin. 29, 6, 39, 133: pellis, Scrib. Comp. 161: stercus, Juv. 14, 64: rictus, id. 10, 271: far, spelt-bread for dogs, id. 5, 11: adeps, Plin. 29, 6, 35, 111: fel, id. 29, 6, 38, 117: dentes, eye-teeth, dog-teeth, Varr. R. R. 2, 7; 3; Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 61, 160: scaeva canina, a favorable augury taken from meeting a dog or from his barking, Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 4.—

B. Subst.: canīna, ae, f. (sc. caro), dog's flesh: canis caninam non ēst, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 32 Müll.—

II. Trop.: prandium, in which no wine is drunk, mean, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 30, 12 sq. (v. the connection, and cf. with our dog-cheap): littera, i. e. the letter R, Pers. 1, 109: facundia, i. e. abusive from its snarling sound, snarling, Appius ap. Sall. H Fragm. 2, 37 Dietsch (from Non. p. 60, 24): eloquen tia, Quint. 12, 9, 9; Lact. 6, 18, 26; cf. Spald. Quint. l. l.: caninum studium locupletissimum quemque adlatrandi, i. e. causidicorum. Col. 1, praef. 9: verba, cutting words, Ov. Ib. 230: nuptiae, canine, beastly (cf.: canis obscena; v. canis), Hier. Ep. 69, n. 2: philosophi = Cynici, Aug. Civ. Dei, 14, 20; hence, caninae aequanimitatis stupor, Tert. Pat. 2.