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gaze-hound

gaze-hound is the alternative form of gazehound.

Meaning of gazehound

Noun

gazehound (plural gazehounds)

  1. Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).
    • And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet's bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable...
    Synonyms:
    sighthound

Forms of gaze-hound

pluralgaze-hounds

Questions about gaze-hound

What is gaze-hound the alternative form of?
Gaze-hound is the alternative form of gazehound.

Words near gaze-hound in the dictionary

  1. Gazda
  2. Gazdas
  3. Gazdecki
  4. Gazdeckis
  5. gaze
  6. gaze-hound
  7. gaze-hounds
  8. Gazean
  9. gazebo
  10. gazeboed
  11. gazeboes

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