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Word Meanings - SLEUTHHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.

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  • 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.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • SCENTINGLY
    By scent. Fuller.
  • SCENT
    1. To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak. 2. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume. Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent
  • BLOODHOUND
    A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for
  • 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
  • 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.
  • TRACKSCOUT
    See TRACKSCHUYT
  • SCENTLESS
    Having no scent. The scentless and the scented rose. Cowper.
  • HOUND
    A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and
  • FLORESCENT
    Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
  • INTUMESCENT
    Swelling up; expanding.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SLOTHHOUND
    See SLEUTHHOUND
  • COGNOSCENTE
    A conoisseur. Mason.
  • FOXHOUND
    One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
  • CRESCENT
    The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.

 

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