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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Hound

Hound, n.

noun

n. [Scot., A-S., O. Sax., O. Fries., Dan., Sw., & N. H. Ger. hund, Icel. hundr, Goth. hunds, D. hond, O. H. Ger. hunt, allied to Lat. canis, Gr. κύνων, κυνός, Albanian kēv, Skr. çvā, gen. çunas, Lith. szŭ, for szŭnis.]

Sense 1. A dog; properly, one which hunts by the scent of game; as, a fox-hound; a blood-hound, and the like; but often used more generally of any dog used for the purpose of hunting; as, a greyhound.

Sense 2. (Naut.) A projection at the mast-head, on both sides, serving as a shoulder for the tops or trestle-trees to rest on. Totten.

Hound, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. HOUNDED; p. pr. & vb. n. HOUNDING.] 1. To set on the chase; to incite, as a hound, to pursuit. He who only lets loose a greyhound out of the slip, is said to hound him at the hare. Bramhall.

  1. To hunt; to chase. L'Estrange.
  2. To urge on, as by hounds; to incite or spur on; to force to action by repeated and clamorous demands; as, to hound a person on to his own ruin.