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Pertaining to or measured by the rising of the Dog Star...
Dog days
A period of from four to six weeks in the summer variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September canicular days so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star Sirius with the sun Popularly the sultry close part of the summer metaphorically a period of inactivity...
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