Word Meanings - GAZEHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. Sir W. Scott.
Related words: (words related to GAZEHOUND)
- RATHER
Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville. - SCENTFUL
1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne. - SIGHTLY
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place. - HOUND
1. To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers. Abp. Bramhall. 2. To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds. L'Estrange. - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - SCENT
1. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior. 2. Specifically, the odor left by an animal - SIGHTED
Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like. - SCENTINGLY
By scent. Fuller. - SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. - SIGHTING
from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot. - HOUNDING
The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. (more info) 1. The act of one who hounds. - HOUNDFISH
Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish , of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. Note: The European nursehound, or small-spotted dogfish, is - SIGHTLESS
1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak. - SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect. - SIGHT-SEER
One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities. - SIGHTFUL
Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love. - HOUND'S-TONGUE
A biennial weed , with soft tongue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. - SIGHTPROOF
Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell. - SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER - SIGHT-SHOT
Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. Cowley. - FLORESCENT
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See - INTUMESCENT
Swelling up; expanding. - PEEP SIGHT
An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight. - REVALESCENT
Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be - ADOLESCENT
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See - CONCUPISCENTIOUS
Concupiscent. - LAPIDESCENT
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies. - CONVALESCENTLY
In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor. - DELITESCENT
Lying hid; concealed. - HELLHOUND
A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak. - HAREHOUND
See CHALMERS - DEPASCENT
Feeding. - HALF-SIGHTED
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon. - INEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent. - SUPERCRESCENT
Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson. - ASCENT
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or - RUFESCENT
Reddish; tinged with red.