Crossword clues for dogday
dogday
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dog day \Dog" day`\ or Dogday \Dog"day`\ One of the dog days.
Dogday cicada (Zo["o]l.), a large American cicada ( Cicada pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer.
Usage examples of "dogday".
He looked up, at first with a stern, keen glance, which penetrated at once into the obscurity behind the arched window, then with a smile, which might be conceived as diffusing a dogday sultriness for the space of several yards about him.
And, all these great purposes accomplished, will he walk the streets again, with that dogday smile of elaborate benevolence, sultry enough to tempt flies to come and buzz in it?
As at Walden, in sultry dogday weather, looking down through the woods on some of its bays which are not so deep but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color.