Word Meanings - SLEUTHHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
Related words: (words related to SLEUTHHOUND)
- 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 - INEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent. - DEPASCENT
Feeding. - 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. - 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. - FOXHOUND
One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.