Definition of Bloodhounds

1. Noun. (plural of bloodhound) ¹

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Definition of Bloodhounds

1. bloodhound [n] - See also: bloodhound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodhounds

bloodened
bloodening
bloodens
bloodfest
bloodfin
bloodfins
bloodflower
bloodflowers
bloodguilt
bloodguiltiness
bloodguilts
bloodguilty
bloodhead
bloodheads
bloodhound
bloodhounds (current term)
bloodied
bloodied nose
bloodied noses
bloodier
bloodies
bloodiest
bloodily
bloodiness
bloodinesses
blooding
bloodings
bloodleaf
bloodleafs
bloodleaves

Literary usage of Bloodhounds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Evidence obtained by trailing with bloodhounds.—The well-known instinct possessed by certain breeds of dogs, commonly known as bloodhounds, which enables ..."

2. The Soldier's Story: Of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and by Warren Lee Goss (2001)
"bloodhounds on the Path. — The Scent lost in the Water — Various Adventures. ... bloodhounds again. — Temporary Escape. — Fight with the bloodhounds. ..."

3. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1898)
"... succeeded in reaching the woods ; after almost unendurable suffering from fatigue and hunger, and after escaping the bloodhounds by crossing A large ..."

4. History of Central America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"A pack of bloodhounds completed the company. The men were armed with crossbows, swords, arquebuses and targets, and provisions for the expedition were ..."

5. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... some Porto Rico bloodhounds, and two very expert huntsmen, was in the constant habit of mounting his horse at day-break, and, thus accompanied, ..."

6. Beyond the Lines, Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie by John James Geer, Alexander Clark (1863)
"Just where we entered the swamp, the water was very shallow, and, consequently, afforded us but poor protection from the bloodhounds, whose peculiar cries ..."

7. A Brief on the Modes of Proving the Facts: Most Frequently in Issue Or by Austin Abbott, Allan J. Carter (1922)
"The authorities are in conflict as to the competency of evidence as to the trailing of persons or animals by bloodhounds.1 The more recent cases which have ..."

8. Days of My Years by Melville Leslie Macnaghten (1914)
"DURING the last twenty-five years much nonsense has been talked and more nonsense has been written about the employment of bloodhounds by Metropolitan ..."

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