Crossword clues for mastiffs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mastiff \Mas"tiff\, n.; pl. Mastiffs. [ Mastives is irregular and unusual.] [Prob. fr. Prov. E. masty, adj., large, n., a great dog, prob. fr. mast fruit, and hence, lit., fattened with mast. There is perh. confusion with OF. mestif mongrel; cf. also F. m[^a]tin mastiff, OF. mastin.] (Zo["o]l.) A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries.
Mastiff bat (Zo["o]l.), any bat of the genus Molossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles that of a mastiff.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mastiff English)
Usage examples of "mastiffs".
Just then she heard the first hornpipes and firecrackers of a fiesta, followed by the furious barking of the mastiffs in their cages.
All that remained of the seignorial dignities of the first Marquis were the five hunting mastiffs that guarded the nights.
She did not remember it again until the following night, when the mastiffs barked until dawn for no reason and she was afraid they had rabies.
This marked the beginning of the almost human friendship the Marquis maintained with that dog, and with the many mastiffs who succeeded him in the house.
She tamed the hunting mastiffs and made them her own with the food of her chaste love, and devoted the hours when she should have been sleeping to caring for the house she never had, sweeping it with brooms made of sweet basil for good luck and hanging strings of garlic in the bedrooms to frighten away mosquitoes.
On two occasions he attempted to see the Marquis, and both times he was stopped by the mastiffs, out of their cages and roaming free in the house with no master.
The groan of the hinges aroused the mastiffs, but Dulce Olivia silenced them with a martial command.
They were sparring in the practice grounds between Mastiffs first and second walls.
As Raoul trudged uphill through the gate in Mastiffs inner wall, he saw Dom stop by each of his men briefly.
Neal, Owen and two of Kel's other year-mates, Seaver of Tasride and Esmond of Nicoline, had come to his room in Mastiffs infirmary to relay the news about Kel.
Connac had told Mastiffs guards that all they had to say to Lord Wyldon was that Sir Nealan had ordered them to open up.
He strode through the marble corridors of the palatial mansion he had called home for the past twenty-one years, two brindle mastiffs padding at his heels with a leonine grace that matched his own.
He peered over the top of the desk to find the mastiffs peering beneath it, their tails quivering at attention.
As he started for the door, one of the mastiffs let out a plaintive whine.
She went suddenly cold, and stood letting the heat of strangers' bodies warm her while the mastiffs sniffed at the reaver's head and wagged the stumps of their tails nervously.