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lyam-hounds

lyam-hounds is the plural 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

Questions about lyam-hounds

What is lyam-hounds the plural of?
Lyam-hounds is the plural of lyam-hound.

Words near lyam-hounds in the dictionary

  1. Lyall's wrens
  2. Lyallpur
  3. Lyalls
  4. lyam
  5. lyam-hound
  6. lyam-hounds
  7. lyams
  8. Lyanna
  9. Lyapunov
  10. Lyapunov exponent
  11. Lyapunov exponents

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