/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dog-grass (triticum repens)
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Grass eaten by dogs when they have lost their appetite; it acts as an emetic and purgative.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.