hounds

Noun

hound (plural hounds)

1. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
   • The hounds were baying a fox.
2. Any canine animal.
3. (broadly) Someone who seeks something.
   • On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 93
4. (broadly) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
   • "She had a good many successors, John."
     "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108, "Are you...
5. A despicable person.
   • Boy! false hound!c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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6. A houndfish.

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