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Wild dog

noun

Any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves.

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... wild dog in Ceylon, but every village and town is haunted by mongrels of European descent, which are known by the generic description of Pariahs. They are a miserable race, acknowledged by no owners, living on the garbage of the streets and sewers, lean, wretched, and mangy, ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... different in their peculiar instincts as are the varieties of the human race. The different fruits and flowers continue the example;—the wild grapes of the forest are grapes, but although they belong to the same class, they are distinct from the luscious "Muscatel;" and the wild dog-rose of the hedge, although of the same class, is inferior to the ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... farther on and they came to the crossing of the Ochre brook. As they rode their horses into the ford, a wild dog that had been lapping at the brink started up with a snarl under the very feet of Piers Major's steed. Now such is the cowardly nature of the wood-dog that he will run from the presence of man if chance of escape be offered; yet if cornered he will show all the ferocity ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

... I have often given tongue In praise of what another's said or sung, 'Twere politic to do the like by these, But where's the wild dog ...

— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... helpless on the ground at a single stroke. Finn only grazed the dingo's haunch, while the dingo slashed a three-inch wound in his right shoulder as he passed. Even while Finn was in the act of turning, the wild dog's fangs clashed again about his flank, ripping his skin as ...

— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson

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