flews

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It was for the sheer joy it brought him that he ran now with low-hanging flews, drinking in the scent he followed.

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  1. plural noun The pendulous corners of the upper lip of certain dogs, such as the bloodhound.

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  • Lips and flews: Lips fit fairly tightly, forming a gentle curve in profile, with no heaviness in the flews.
  • The lips are darkly pigmented and are pendulous, falling squarely in front and, toward the back, in loose hanging flews.
  • Muzzle -- Moderate length, flews give it a squarish appearance.
  • The flews are well developed with typical hound appearance.
  • Then, before he could get time to tear the pelt off for her, the Lady Desdemona, with a snappishness more suggestive of a hedge-side cur than of a hound of her rank, actually snatched away the rabbit, and with never a "Thank you," or a "By your leave," carried it right inside the cave, dropping it there and returning to bar the entrance, with a look in her red-hawed eyes and a lift of her golden flews which, if not actual snarling, was, as folks say, near enough to make no difference. —  Jan A Dog and a Romance
 

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