Dog-eared

2 definitions found

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

  dog-eared \dog"-eared`\, a.
     1. Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by
        careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book; as,
        an old book with dog-eared pages.
  
     Note: Making a page dog-eared is sometimes done deliberately


           to mark a location in a book.
           [1913 Webster]
  
                 Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared.
                                                    --Ld.
                                                    Mansfield.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     2. worn down, shabby.
  
     Syn: eared.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dog-eared
       adj : worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having
             corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit
             run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared
             pages" [syn: {eared}]