Definition of Hounds

1. Noun. (plural of hound#Noun hound) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of hound#Verb hound) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hounds

1. hound [v] - See also: hound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hounds

hound's-tongue
hound's-tooth check
hound's tongue
hound-dog facies
hound dog
hound dogs
hound shark
hound sharks
hounded
hounder
hounders
houndfish
houndfishes
hounding
houndings
hounds (current term)
houndsteeth
houndstooth
houndstooth check
houngan
houngans
houp
houpelande
houpelandes
houppelande
houppelandes
hour
hour angle
hour change
hour changes

Literary usage of Hounds

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The hounds must have first of all walking, then trotting and fast exercise, ... So far as the hounds are concerned, the object of cub hunting is to teach ..."

2. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1893)
"In the Eastern forests occasionally an old-time hunter would own one or two track-hounds, slow, with a good nose, intelligent and obedient, of use mainly in ..."

3. Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions and by Robert Hunt (1865)
"THE WISH hounds. THE tradition of the Midnight Hunter and his he hounds, always, in Cornwall, associated with Tre< prevails everywhere. ..."

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