"dog" as noun
1 - A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
2 - Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
3 - A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
"dog" as verb
1 - To pursue with the intent to catch.
2 - To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
3 - To fasten a hatch securely.
"dog" as noun
1 - Meat from a dog eaten as food.
2 - Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
3 - An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
