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"text": "Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.",
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"ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto III.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 63:",
"text": "The conquering foe they soon assail’d; / First Trulla stav’d, and Cerdon tail’d, / Until their Mastives loos’d their hold: / And yet alas! do what they could, / The worsted Bear came off with store / Of bloudy wounds, but all before.",
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"text": "Her, who did erst the lengthened fight maintain, / And heaped the death-pile red with Prankish gore, / The Vert fangs now to vassalage constrain: / The mastives old and young, Verrucchio bore, / Who in their lawless rule Montagna slew, / Make their teeth augres where they wont of yore: […]",
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"en:Dogs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Demosthenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 908:",
"text": "At which time, they wryte that Demoſthenes told the people of Athens, the fable of the ſheepe and woulues, how that the woulues came on a time, and willed the ſheepe, if they woulde haue peace with them, to deliuer them their maſtiues that kept them.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 302:",
"text": "As ſaluage Bull, whom two fierce maſtiues bayt, / When rancour doth with rage him once engore, / Forgets with wary warde them to awayt, / But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore, / Or flings aloft or treades downe in the flore, / Breathing out wrath, and bellowing diſdaine, / That all the foreſt quakes to heare him rore: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act V, signature [M4], verso:",
"text": "They fill’d the Capitoll, and Pompei’s Circke: / Where, like ſo many Maſtiues, biting ſtones, / As if his Statues novv vvere ſenſitiue / Of their vvild fury, firſt they teare them dovvne: / Then faſtning ropes, drag them along the ſtreetes, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:",
"text": "Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto III.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 63:",
"text": "The conquering foe they soon assail’d; / First Trulla stav’d, and Cerdon tail’d, / Until their Mastives loos’d their hold: / And yet alas! do what they could, / The worsted Bear came off with store / Of bloudy wounds, but all before.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 233:",
"text": "Soon as Ulyſſes near th’encloſure drew, / With open mouths the furious maſtives flew: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1843, Dante Alighieri, translated by John Dayman, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, Translated in the Terza Rima of the Original, with Notes and Appendix, London: William Edward Painter, […], page 173:",
"text": "Her, who did erst the lengthened fight maintain, / And heaped the death-pile red with Prankish gore, / The Vert fangs now to vassalage constrain: / The mastives old and young, Verrucchio bore, / Who in their lawless rule Montagna slew, / Make their teeth augres where they wont of yore: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1896, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 11, in Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, The Century Co.:",
"text": "The Mastiff is a good fighter, and can kill a wildcat, taking the necessary punishment well, as we found out when we once trapped one of these small lynxes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Bob Shacochis, “Les Femmes Creoles: A Fairy Tale”, in The Next New World, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 22:",
"text": "Neither of them could say how many years it had been since the week-long poisoning epidemic, which first took their father’s bulls, then his mastives, then the man himself; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 November 19, Tom Phillips, “Argentina holds breath as far-right Milei seizes narrow runoff advantage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "Milei’s allies reject his portrayal as an unbalanced powder keg, although they do not refute claims their leader takes counsel from his cloned mastiffs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs."
],
"links": [
[
"breed",
"breed"
],
[
"dog",
"dog"
],
[
"watchdog",
"watchdog"
],
[
"guard dog",
"guard dog"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"mastiff"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmæstɪf/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Mastiff"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "waghond"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "slagtershond"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "kettinghond"
},
{
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mostín"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "anglijski dog",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "английски дог"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastí"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "áo",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "獒"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "doga"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "mastiff"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "dogo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "mastiffi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dogue"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastín"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Dogge"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "mastiff",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מסטיף"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "masztiff"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "dogo"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "mastiff"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maistín"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastino"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "masuchifu",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "マスチフ"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "masutifu",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "マスティフ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canis villaticus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canis Anglicus"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastifas"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "anjing mastif"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ryþþa"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "roþhund"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastif"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastiff"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastyf"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastim"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "dogue"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastif"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dog",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дог"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastín"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alano"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "dogo"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"english": "'dogs khyi",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "འདོགས་ཁྱི"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "mastif"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"word": "doeg"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mastiff"
}
],
"word": "mastiff"
}
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