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Definition:not a catBaldrick in Blackadder---a domestic animal remarkably various in his speciesSamual Johnson's Dictionary (and BTW, about as ambiguous as Baldrick's definition)---A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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[Blackadder and Baldrick, writing a dictionary]
Blackadder: "Baldrick, what have you got?"
Baldrick: "I've done 'C' and 'D' "
Blackadder: "Right. Let's have it then."
Baldrick: "Right. 'Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in.' 'C' "
Blackadder: "Yes. Tiny misunderstanding - still, my hopes weren't high. Now what about 'D'?"
Baldrick: "I'm part-pleased with 'dog'."
Blackadder: "and your definition of 'dog' is?"
Baldrick: "not a cat"
BBC. Blackadder, Season 3, Ink and Incapability
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Soon, Brown Dog developed into a big, fleshy, meaty dog. Tiabo was much impressed. She appraised Brown Dog with a knowing eye. “I think Brown Dog will be kang-kang,” she said.
“Really?” I said, examining Brown Dog a little more closely. She was a good-looking dog, unaffected by the mange. “You really think she’ll be a tasty dog?”
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.184 (2004)
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A dog is "a domestic animal remarkably various in his species," but this does not distinguish him, except to natural historians, from a cow, a sheep, or a hog; for of these there are also different breeds or species. A cat is "a domestic animal that catches mice;" but this may be said of an owl, or a dog; for a dog will catch mice if he sees them, though he does not watch for them as a cat does.
J.T. Callender. Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson. (1782)
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The Dog is a survival—an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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First, Take up the Carotidal Artery of the Dog or other Animal, whose Bloud is to be transfused into another of the same or a different kind, and separate it from the Nerve of the Eighth pair, and lay it bare above an inch. Then make a strong Ligature on the upper part of the Arterie, not to be untied again: but an inch below, videl. towards the Heart, make another Ligature of a running knot, which may be loosen'd or fastned as there shall be occasion.
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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