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Definition of Hare and hounds
1. Noun. An outdoor game; one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hare And Hounds
Literary usage of Hare and hounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1895)
"All their grievances were forgotten, and they were resolving to go out the first
big-side next half, and thinking hare-and-hounds the most delightful of ..."
2. On the South African Frontier: The Adventures and Observations of an by William Harvey Brown (1899)
"... Equipment, and Organization—" Sing-songs "—A Game of Hare and Hounds—The
Journey Continued—Along the Crocodile River—Skirmish Drills—Baines's Camp on ..."
3. Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by Ernest Grey Sandford (1906)
"CHAPTER VI SCHOOL GAMES Football—hare and hounds—Rifle corps—Athletics and character.
THE discussion of Dr. Temple's action as a Headmaster would not be ..."
4. The Riverside Magazine for Young People by Horace Elisha Scudder (1870)
"HOW WE PLAYED «hare and hounds." BY ERIC. IT wasn't very long ago, in fact it
was only last November, that we had our Grand Hun at Hare and Hounds. ..."
5. Fifth Reader by Charles Maurice Stebbins (1913)
"hare and hounds AT RUGBY The only incident worth recording here, however, was
the first run at hare and hounds. On the last Tuesday but one of the half year ..."
6. Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to by Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, John Thomas Cook (1883)
"Clowser, in order to obtain this access, entered into an arrangement with Haughton,
the then tenant of the Hare and Hounds (which was reduced to writing and ..."
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