2. Verb. (third-person singular of beagle) ¹
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Definition of Beagles
1. beagle [n] - See also: beagle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beagles
Literary usage of Beagles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"In that event the wrath of some one would be aroused, and on the performance
being repeated, a proposal to abolish the beagles might be made. ..."
2. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"When hounds or beagles run 'long, without making any cry, they are faid ta run mute.
... When beagles bark and cry at their prey, they fay, hey y<am. ..."
3. The Hunting Field with Horse and Hound in America: The British Isles and France by Frank Sherman Peer (1910)
"The foot beagles of Great Britain are largely owned in private packs and hunted
as such, or in company with neighbouring beagles brought together for a ..."
4. The Sporting Dog by Joseph Alexander Graham (1904)
"CHAPTER X beagles IF the white man who first saw a jack-rabbit felt the need of
a greyhound, the first one to see a cottontail surely resolved to send back ..."
5. Hunting by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"There is many a true word spoke sarcastic 1 beagles HUNTED ON FOOT. The subject
of hare hunting would be incomplete without some few remarks upon hunting ..."
6. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1882)
"Foot beagles should not much exceed nine inches in height; but for "Young ...
A great many packs of " foot beagles " are now kept throughout the country, ..."