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limehound

limehound is the alternative form of lyam-hound.

Meaning of lyam-hound

Noun

lyam-hound (plural lyam-hounds)

  1. (obsolete) A bloodhound.
    • Talus, that could like a lime-hound winde her, […] At length found out whereas she hidden lay / Under an heape of gold.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of limehound

plurallimehounds

Questions about limehound

What is limehound the alternative form of?
Limehound is the alternative form of lyam-hound.

Words near limehound in the dictionary

  1. limecrete
  2. limed
  3. limed ginger
  4. limed gingers
  5. Limedale
  6. limehound
  7. limehounds
  8. limehouse
  9. Limehoused
  10. limehouses
  11. Limehousing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: limehound (page history and authors); lyam-hound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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