It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below.
The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting.
The following anecdote is particularly illustrative of canine sagacity.
The Baronet and the Squire, particularly the latter, had heard much of the "Frauds of London," but neither of them was aware that metropolitan roguery was carried on and accelerated through the medium of canine agency.
A tapir-like mammal, having canine teeth, known only by fossil remains found in Tertiary rocks.
His body is usually naked, his canine teeth are not longer than their neighbors, his thumbs are larger than those of monkeys, and his feet are distinguished by the horizontal sole which rests flatly on the ground.
The Stag alone has a single canine tooth a little behind these, but the Hind is denied this possession.
The large canine teeth are very conspicuous in contrast with the small incisors.
But the snarling expression exposed the canine teeth.
At one time they were so strongly imbued with respect for their canine ancestry that they entirely ceased to employ dogs in drawing their sledges, greatly to the hardship of the women upon whom this laborious task fell.
The dogs of Alaska are scarcely up to the average of Arctic canine nobility.
Nearly all cases of hydrophobia in man and animals being due to bites by rabid members of the canine fraternity, a fundamental condition of all success in prevention is the prohibition of its diffusion by dogs.
Dogs perspire little and suffer severely from heat, but there is no evidence that this can develop canine madness.
Canine madness is an acute infectious disease, supposed to arise spontaneously in the genus Canis (dog, wolf, fox, etc.
Moreover, the seclusion of male canine animals for a lifetime in menagerie cages, often adjoining those of their corresponding females, has never been known to induce rabies.
In every town there are Guardians of the Dogs, and to these officers notice must be given in case of any canine misdemeanour, these guardians alone being empowered to punish the dogs.
Maphoon has the same dental peculiarity also that her father had--the absence of the canine teeth and grinders, the back part of the gums presenting merely a hard ridge.
This vast increase of the canine species, and the encouragement and immunity accorded to it, arose (according to the popular account) out of a curious superstition and an extravagant imperial decree.
The door was shut, and the travelers could see nothing of the household; but the sharp, angry challenge of the canine sentinels within, who did not pause to listen for an answer, proved that the place was not without a garrison.
The power of voluntarily uncovering the canine on one side of the face being thus often wholly lost, indicates that it is a rarely used and almost abortive action.
The expression of a half-playful sneer graduates into one of great ferocity when, together with a heavily frowning brow and fierce eye, the canine tooth is exposed.
As he prepares to spring with a savage growl on his enemy, the canine teeth are uncovered, and the ears are pressed close backwards on the head; but with these latter actions, we are not here concerned.
I asked four persons to endeavour to act voluntarily in this manner; two could expose the canine only on the left side, one only on the right side, and the fourth on neither side.
Instantly the whole expression of the face of the Inuus changed; the mouth was opened much more widely, the canine teeth were more fully exposed, and a hoarse barking noise was uttered.
It reveals his animal descent; for no one, even if rolling on the ground in a deadly grapple with an enemy, and attempting to bite him, would try to use his canine teeth more than his other teeth.
The delinquent did not dare to give vent to his wrath in words, but it was plainly shown on his countenance, sometimes by a defiant frown, and sometimes "by a thoroughly canine snarl.
Scorn and disdain, as well as sneering and defiance, may be displayed by a slight uncovering of the canine tooth on one side of the face; and this movement appears to graduate into one closely like a smile.
The uncovering of the canine tooth is the result of a double movement.
Yes, it was really a deer that was giving utterance to those canine accents.
Hence it was that the shikarree was so delighted, when he saw the old serow dealing death among his canine antagonists.
To be sure, he chased chickens, but what canine could resist that temptation?
Peter Snooks, fully conscious that his young mistresses were in trouble, climbed into Julie's lap and stuck his wet nose into her hand in true canine sympathy.
The gambols of his canine favourites passed unnoticed by him.
All these negative features indicate that the mechanical side of the canine mind is entirely undeveloped.
All the canine animals trust rather to furious chase than to the cautious form of assault by stealthy approach and a final spring upon their prey, as is the habit with the cat tribe.
Another extremely human characteristic of our canine friends is shown in their susceptibility to ridicule.
It is particularly on this account that I am disposed to think that our races of dogs have been derived from one or more original species of truly canine ancestors, the wild forms of which have long since disappeared from the earth.
Stallions, two, attacking a third; fighting; small canine teeth of.
A still more ancient progenitor probably somewhat resembled the Hyomoschus aquaticus--for this animal is spotted, and the hornless males have large exsertedcanine teeth, of which some few true deer still retain rudiments.
Although he is thus less ornamented than the female, yet in the larger size of his body larger canine teeth, more developed whiskers, more prominent superciliary ridges, he follows the common rule of the male excelling the female.
Musk-deer, canine teeth of male; male, odoriferous organs of the; winter change of the.
With many of the Quadrumana, we have additional evidence of the action of sexual selection in the greater size and strength of the males, and in the greater development of their canine teeth, in comparison with the females.
All grades of canine society were represented, from the big and well-fed St. Bernard to the mongrel snared in the slums.
He soon returned with the meat, as well as a bucket in which were canine dainties--kitchen scraps.
There were many tents pitched around the cabin where Frank distributed the necessities of human sustenance; but Dude's instincts drew him to the kitchen, and down he and his caninefollowers flopped before the door.
Yet is there even a beginning made towards the canine development of articulate language, or does any living man believe that such a beginning ever could be made?
The males were provided with great canine teeth, which served them as formidable weapons.
The females of the canine race, however, are able to bestow their affections; and tender recollections are as potent over them as they are known to be in other cases, where higher animals are concerned.
There is no mental sympathy between a shrub and ourselves; yet a passion for flowers is pretended to by many who cultivate a horror of the canine race.
The like admiration for bulk appears to be entertained by the members of the canine race.
Epsom salts are a violent hydragogue to the canine patient, producing copious and watery stools.
Lecturers are marvellously fluent upon the subject of the dog's vomiting, which they dwell upon with such delight that their auditors must suppose the act of revulsion in the canine species is a pleasurable performance.
It is a very vulgar mistake to imagine the canine race have no preferences.
The Lord Mayor of London does not retire from office with a stomach more deranged than the majority of the canine race, shielded by his worshipful authority, could exhibit.
The generative organs, in the male of the canine species, are peculiarly sympathetic with the digestive functions.
It is not my practice to employ setons, being convinced that those agents are not beneficial to the canine race; but to blisters, which on these animals are seldom used, I have little objection.
From all the ruck of Cheapside a vagrant dog will select the man who has most toleration for the canine species, and is most likely to give him shelter.
He talked to her rather in the same spirit in which one talks to a faithful canine companion--as Napoleon III.
One of the chief characteristics of the walrus is the presence of two elongated tusks (the canine teeth) in the upper jaw.
The short day was coming to a close when the leading dog yelped suddenly, and with his followers began to manifest signs of canine excitement.
Every virtue under heaven she attributed to that canine individual; and I was obliged to allow in my return letters that since our planet began to spin, nothing comparable to Fanchon had ever run on four legs.
Do you remember Stickeen, thecanine hero of John Muir's dog story?
He stayed up that night until the leading canine musician shrieked his solo to the moon.
