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Hound   /haʊnd/   Listen
noun
Hound  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. "Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs."
2.
A despicable person. "Boy! false hound!"
3.
(Zool.) A houndfish.
4.
pl. (Naut.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
5.
A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
To follow the hounds, to hunt with hounds.


verb
Hound  v. t.  (past & past part. hounded; pres. part. hounding)  
1.
To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
2.
To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.





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"Hound" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet!" Adrian interjected languidly. "No getting into scrapes when I have him. The leash, young hound! the collar, young colt! I'm ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the tumulus and drew his machete. The dogs, six in number, coursed among the cypresses, and the leader, foam upon his mouth, leaped straight at Ned. The boy involuntarily drew up his feet a little, but he was not shaken from the crouching position that was best suited to a blow. As the hound was in mid-air he swung the machete with all his might and struck straight at the ugly head. The heavy blade crashed through the skull and the dog fell dead without a sound. Another which leaped also, but not so far, received a deep cut across the shoulder. It fell back ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler
... found its way to him by degrees. He shifted himself uneasily, as though he would have been glad to smother himself beneath the bedclothes, was it not for lack of resolution. A whipped hound never presented a more ...
— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent
... which trust to the involuntary services of animals in dispersing their seeds, a great many varieties of detail may be observed on close inspection. For example, in hound's-tongue and goose-grass, two of the best-known instances among our common English weeds, each little nut is covered with many small hooks, which make it catch on firmly by several points of attachment to passing animals. These are the kinds we human beings of either sex oftenest ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... England, together with choice breeds of cattle, and before long the new settlement was a success. During his residence in Ceylon he published, as a result of many adventurous hunting expeditions, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon (1853), and two years later Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon (1855). After a journey to Constantinople and the Crimea in 1856, he found an outlet for his restless energy by undertaking the supervision of the construction of a railway across the Dobrudja, connecting ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various


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