Spaniel

1. v. t. To follow like a spaniel.
2. n. One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.
3. n. A cringing, fawning person.
4. a. Cringing; fawning.
5. v. i. To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.