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Word Meanings - GAZEHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. Sir W. Scott.

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  • 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.

 

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