_ A rounded head, instead of flat on top.
_Blaze._ A white mark up the face.
_Brisket._ The part of body in front of the chest.
_Brush._ The tail, usually applied to sheepdogs.
_Butterfly Nose._ A spotted nose.
_Button Ear._ Where the tip falls over and covers the orifice.
_Cat Foot._ A short round foot, knuckles high and well developed.
_Cheeky._ When the cheek bumps are strongly defined.
_Chest._ Underneath a dog from brisket to belly.
_Chops._ The pendulous lip of the bulldog.
_Cobby._ Well ribbed up, short and compact in proportion.
_Couplings._ Space between tops of shoulder blades and tops of hip
joints.
_Cow Hocks._ Hocks that turn in.
_Dew Claw._ Extra claw, found occasionally on all breeds.
_Dewlap._ Pendulous skin under the throat.
_Dish Faced._ When nose is higher than muzzle at the stop.
_Dudley Nose._ A yellow or flesh-coloured nose.
_Elbow._ The joint at the top of the forearm.
_Feather._ The hair at the back of the legs and under the tail.
_Flag._ A term for the tail, applied to a setter.
_Flews._ The pendulous lips of the bloodhound and other breeds.
_Forearm._ Part of foreleg extending from elbow to pastern.
_Frill._ A mass of hair on the chest, especially on collies.
_Hare Foot._ A long narrow foot, carried forward.
_Haw._ Red inside eyelid, shown in bloodhounds and St Bernards.
_Height._ Measured at the shoulder, bending head gently down.
_Hocks._ The hock joints.
_Hucklebones._ Tops of the hip joints.
_Knee._ The joint attaching fore-pastern and forearm.
_Leather._ The skin of the ear.
_Occiput._ The projecting bone or bump at the back of the head.
_Overshot._ The upper teeth projecting beyond the under.
_Pastern._ Lowest section of leg, below the knee or hock.
_Pig Jaw._ Exaggeration of overshot.
_Pily._ A term applied to soft coat.
_Rose Ear._ Where the tip of ear turns back, showing interior.
_Septum._ The division between the nostrils.
_Smudge Nose._ A nose which is not wholly black, but not spotted.
_Stifles._ The top joints of the hind legs.
_Stop._ The indentation below the eyes, most prominent in bulldogs.
_Tulip Ear._ An erect or pricked ear.
_Undershot._ The lower teeth projecting in front of the upper ones.

(W. B.; P. C. M.)

DOGE (a modified form of the Ital. _duca_, Lat. _dux_, a leader, or
duke), the title of the chief magistrate in the extinct republics of
Venice and Genoa.