hound

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  1. noun A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
  2. noun A dog.
  3. noun A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
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  • When we desire you to turn blood-hound, and hunt for us our fugitive slaves, we expect you to do it, and to see them returned to their masters, without a murmur on your part. —  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
  • My first lesson in animal psychology I got from old Nat Higby as he came riding by on horseback one winter day, his huge feet almost meeting under the horse, just as a hound was running a fox across our upper mountain lot. —  My Boyhood
  • He simply could not have shot him if the hound was able to run away. —  081 - Hex
  • Gabriel and his hound were actually very much alike. —  Garwood, Julie - Saving Grace
  • : I think the hound is a beagle puppy and I can testify to the ingenuity and tenacity, as the proud but frustrated owner of a … —  Stand Firm
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wolf ·  dog ·  cat ·  brute ·  deer ·  hunter ·  puppy ·  fox ·  bear ·  elephant ·  bull ·  dragon

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hound:   hounds ·  hounded ·  hounding
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hund; see kwon- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hound, hund, from Anglo-Saxon hund, a dog (the ordinary word for ‘dog,’ the word dog being of later introduction),= Old Saxon hund = OFries. hund, hond = Dutch hond = Middle Low German hunt, Low German hund = Old High German Middle High German hunt, German hund = Icelandic hundr = Swedish Danish hund = Gothic (Moesogothic) hunds, all with formative -d, not found in the cognate forms; = Latin canis = Greek κύων (κυν-) = Lithuanian szunis, also szuo (genitive szuns) = Old Prussian sunis = Old Irish cū (genitive con) = Gaelic cū = Welsh ci (plural cwn) = Zend çunis = Sanskrit çvan, a dog; cf. Russian Polish suka, Hungarian szuka, etc., a bitch. Root unknown.
  2. from hound, n.
 

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