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Definition of Dog bent
1. Noun. Common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves.
Generic synonyms: Bent, Bent Grass, Bent-grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Bent
Literary usage of Dog bent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"In meadows, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Native northward ; naturalized from Europe southward. Rhode Island or dog bent ..."
2. Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales by Robert Hamill Nassau (1914)
"dog bent down his head. Tortoise slashed the entire neck, cutting Dog's head off.
And Dog fell down a corpse. Tortoise cut up the body, and put the pieces ..."
3. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1847)
"His dog bent over him, and licked his face—then went to the end of his string,
and wistfully looked back at his dead master, as though it were time to move ..."
4. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1847)
"His dog bent over him, and licked his face—then went to the end of his string,
and wistfully looked back at his dead master, as though it were time to move ..."
5. Productive Sheep Husbandry by Walter Castella Coffey (1918)
"Putting bells on a number of sheep assists some, but the discordant jangling
characteristic of American sheep bells will not stop a bold dog bent on ..."
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