noun
definition
One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs.
Examples of mastiff in a Sentence
The pugdog is a dwarf race, probably of mastiff origin, and kept solely as a pet.
Hamilton Benn were busy laying a smoke screen, supported by the "Faulknor" (flying Commodore Hubert Lyne's broad pendant), "Lightfoot," "Mastiff," "Afridi," "Swift" and "Matchless."
The English mastiff is a huge and powerful dog with pendent ears but short and silky coat.
The build is rather slighter than that of the English mastiff, and the ears are small and carried erect.
They were to be supported by five bombarding monitors ("Marshal Soult," "Lord Clive," "Prince Eugene," "General Crawford," M24 and M26) and covered by five British destroyers ("Swift," "Faulknor," "Matchless," "Mastiff" and "Afridi"), with three British destroyers and six French torpedo boats attending on the monitors ("Mentor," "Lightfoot," "Zubian," "Lestin," "Capitaine Mehl," "Francis Gamier," "Roux," "Bouclier").
The Tibetan mastiff is equally powerful, but has still larger pendent ears, a shaggy coat and a long brush-like tail.
Among other dogs of India are the pariah, which is merely a mongrel, run wild and half starved; the poligar dog, an immense creature peculiar to the south; the greyhound, used for coursing; and the mastiff of Tibet and Bhutan.
Of the approximate size of an English mastiff, this powerful baboon is blackish grey in colour with a tinge of green due to the yellow rings on most of the hairs.
One of my clients has a bull mastiff x staff, its a boy and about the size of a lab and weighs 43kg.
My dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier x mastiff x chow.
In 1913 a trial was conducted using a false bow, representing a torpedo gunboat, fitted to an old vessel called Mastiff.
At one time he possessed a large mastiff named Lion, which he disposed of to a stranger.
In this case the animal was a huge black mastiff, with glaring eyes and red eyelids.
It tends to go down rather unfavorably with my 11 month old Neapolitan mastiff!
Common ailments susceptibility To Illness Low History Ancestors of the Tibetan Mastiff have been known to exist in Tibet for many centuries.
The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of silent Berserkir rage that I remember in any man."
In Wales its counterpart was Gwyllgi, "the Dog of Darkness," a frightful apparition of a mastiff with baleful breath and blazing red eyes.
A Mastiff named Zorba was one of the heaviest dogs in the world, weighing in at 343 pounds.
Whether your dog is a tiny Chihuahua, a big English Mastiff or any size in between, you are sure to find the perfect Christmas dog treats for the special canine friend in your life.
Bullmastiffs were originally bred in England by crossing a traditional Mastiff with a Bulldog.
Zorba was an English Mastiff that weighed in at 343 pounds and also measured nearly eight feet in length from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail.
The Neopolitan Mastiff is another heavy dog breed that weighs between 150 and 180 pounds.
One of these tattoos, a picture of his bull mastiff dog Marty, was done by Ami James from Miami Ink.
Bulldog, bulldog (miniature), mastiff, Great Dane, Newfoundland (black, white and black, or other than black), St Bernard (rough and smooth), Old English sheepdog, collie (rough and smooth), Dalmatian, poodle, bull terrier, white English terrier, black and tan terrier, toy spaniel (King Charles or black and tan, Blenheim, ruby or red and tricolour), Japanese, Pekingese, Yorkshire terrier, Maltese, Italian greyhound, chowchow, black and tan terrier (miniature), Pomeranian, pug (fawn and black), Schipperke, Griffon Bruxellois, foreign dogs (bouledogues frangais, elk-hounds, Eskimos, Lhasa terriers, Samoyedes and any other varieties not mentioned under this heading).