"dog's-eared" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dog's-eared",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dog's-eared",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dog's-eared (comparative more dog's-eared, superlative most dog's-eared)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "dog-eared"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop:",
          "text": "There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267:",
          "text": "He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,\n[…] The carpet there, the table\nOn which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,\nThe cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,\nAnd the long window lustred with changing rain,\nAnd the long day, profound and termless."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of dog-eared."
      ],
      "id": "en-dog's-eared-en-adj-fqowI3u9",
      "links": [
        [
          "dog-eared",
          "dog-eared#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dog's-eared"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dog's-eared",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dog's-eared",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "dog's-eared (comparative more dog's-eared, superlative most dog's-eared)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "dog-eared"
        }
      ],
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop:",
          "text": "There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267:",
          "text": "He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,\n[…] The carpet there, the table\nOn which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,\nThe cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,\nAnd the long window lustred with changing rain,\nAnd the long day, profound and termless."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of dog-eared."
      ],
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        [
          "dog-eared",
          "dog-eared#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dog's-eared"
}