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Dog's-ear

Dog's-ear \Dog's"-ear`\, n. The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
--Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a.
--Cowper.

Usage examples of "dog's-ear".

Utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, Commissioners of Fact, genteel and used-up infidels, gabblers of many little dog's-eared creeds, the poor you will have always with you.