Bloodhound
['blʌdhaʊnd]
Definition
(noun.) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking.
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Definition
(n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.
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Examples
- Instead of taking the footman, whose nose was human, and therefore useless in any emergency, I took the bloodhound with me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I'll pull him down, like a bloodhound. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But this is not a bloodhound, said the lady. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A mastiff and a bloodhound. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The soldier replied, Madam, our orders are to kill every bloodhound. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And Littimer had better have a bloodhound at his back, than little Mowcher! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They let loose two immense bloodhounds at night, which all last night were yelling and howling at the moon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The South, prior to the rebellion, kept bloodhounds to pursue runaway slaves who took refuge in the neighboring swamps, and also to hunt convicts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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