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Definition of Gazehound
1. n. A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.
Definition of Gazehound
1. Noun. A hound that primarily hunts by speed and sight, instead of by scent and endurance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gazehound
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gazehound
Literary usage of Gazehound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal-lore of Shakespeare's Time: Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles by Emma Phipson (1883)
"The former variety was probably the progenitor of the long-bod ied dachshund, or
badger-hound, so popular in modern times. gazehound. . , o , Of the ..."
2. Arrian on Coursing: The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translatd from by Arrian (1831)
"... who very absurdly borrows, for his gazehound, a name previously engaged by a
totally different dog ; as if to gratify his etymological mania by ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
"It is often rendered " beagle," and by some "gazehound," which seems to mean a
large hound ... And so Tickell writes:— See'st thou the gazehound ? how, ..."
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