dog's-eared

dog's-eared (comparative more dog's-eared, superlative most dog's-eared)

1. Obsolete form of dog-eared.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop‎:

     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.

   • 1879, Bram Stoker, Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., Chapter 20, p. 267,

     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.

   • 1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,

     […] The carpet there, the table

     On which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,

     The cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,

     And the long window lustred with changing rain,

     And the long day, profound and termless.