Canine

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canine \Ca*nine"\, n. (Anat.)
     A canine tooth.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Canine \Ca*nine"\, a. [L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin.
     See {Hound}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the family {Canid[ae]}, or dogs and
        wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that
        or those of a dog.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side
        the incisors.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Canine appetite}, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia.
  
     {Canine letter}, the letter r. See {R}.
  
     {Canine madness}, hydrophobia.
  
     {Canine tooth}, a tooth situated between the incisor and
        bicuspid teeth, so called because well developed in dogs;
        usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of
        each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the
        lower jaw.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  canine
       adj 1: of or relating to a pointed conical tooth [syn: {laniary}]
       2: of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family
          Canidae
       n 1: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw)
            located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: {canine
            tooth}, {eyetooth}, {eye tooth}, {dogtooth}, {cuspid}]
       2: any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and
          typically long muzzles [syn: {canid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "canine":
     Seeing Eye dog, amphibian, aquatic, baby tooth, bandog, bicuspid,
     biped, bitch, bowwow, bucktooth, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite,
     crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle,
     denticulation, dentil, dentition, dog, doggy, dogtooth, eyetooth,
     fancy dog, fang, feline, fore tooth, foxlike, foxy, gagtooth,
     gang tooth, gnawer, gold tooth, grinder, guide dog, gyp, herbivore,
     hound, incisor, insectivore, invertebrate, kennel, lap dog, lupine,
     mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, milk tooth, molar,
     omnivore, pack of dogs, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, pooch,
     premolar, primate, pup, puppy, quadruped, reptile, rodent,
     ruminant, scavenger, scrivello, sheep dog, show dog, sled dog,
     slut, snag, snaggletooth, tooth, toy dog, tush, tusk, tyke,
     ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, vulpine, watchdog, whelp,
     wisdom tooth, wolfish, working dog