(n.) 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.
(n.) A despicable person.
(n.) A houndfish.
(n.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
(n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
(v. t.) To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
(v. t.) To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) "I was hounded by media from all over the world last year.
(3) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
(4) The mean concentration of urate in the serum of 80 Dalmatian Coach Hounds was approximately double that in the serum of 99 dogs of other breeds.
(5) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(6) The association of this infection in Basset Hounds suggests an inherited immunologic defect.
(7) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
(8) He's hounded out of town in the most hysterical way, but the film is reckless with its logic and fails to observe due processes of plot, milieu, verisimilitude – massive failings when dealing with such a sensitive subject.
(9) Most of more than 20 groups contacted by the Guardian reported dozens of new recruits, with children as young as four and six riding to hounds for the first time.
(10) They face continuous harassment in Kazakhstan and Vietnam , are under surveillance in the UK , and get hounded by tax authorities in Canada and India.
(11) "The constant hounding through so many different mediums and the total lack of privacy or being able to shake him off compounded the fear and made me feel that I would never, ever be free."
(12) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
(13) But in addition to the grief, there was real anger, because many people feel that Swartz had been hounded to his death by aggressive federal prosecutors.
(14) Billie had just come out of Doctor Who so it was a weird time – the paparazzi were hounding her and I think Marsh even became our getaway driver a few times, the poor man.
(15) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(16) In The Hound of the Baskervilles, locals live in fear of Selden, an escaped murderer who roams Dartmoor.
(17) Like Ashdown and Kennedy, they get elected then are either ignored or hounded.
(18) Hounding Germans out of work half a century after the last war is altogether different.
(19) Fearing stories of haunted hounds and curses, I’m not sure I want to hear it.
(20) The environment for expressing opinion and writing has become harsher and harsher in recent years.” Self-censorship was on the rise as writers and publishers tried to second-guess what was acceptable under the new political climate, in which government critics have been hounded or even jailed.
Huntsman
Definition:
(n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting.
(n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Gringrich, Huntsman and Santorum in a deadheat, each will be seeking to find a message that will resonate and help them break out off the bunch.
(2) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
(3) Perhaps the even more moderate Jon Huntsman might have lost by only 2-3pt nationally.
(4) In New Hampshire, he faces at least four major candidates: Santorum, Ron Paul, who came a close third in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich, who trailed in fourth place and has an intense dislike of Romney, and Jon Huntsman, who did not compete in Iowa.
(5) Romney, as a moderate compared with the rest of the field other than Jon Huntsman, stands little chance of improving on 2008 in theory.
(6) The outgoing US ambassador, Jon Huntsman, described Ai Weiwei as one of the activists who "challenge the Chinese government to serve the public in all cases and at all times" in a strongly worded speech in Shanghai on Wednesday night.
(7) In recent polls Huntsman moved into third place in New Hampshire and could become the focus of a bloc of anti-Romney sentiment that has been a key factor of the race so far.
(8) The Huntsman girls clearly have an issue with moustaches.
(9) Romney and Santorum both ended the night on 24.5% of the vote, Paul 21.5%, Newt Gingrich 13%, Rick Perry 10%, Michelle Bachmann 5% and Jon Huntsman 1%.
(10) There’s a big difference … between what the media thinks is important and what the ordinary American thinks.” John Weaver, an adviser to John McCain during his two presidential runs who also ran Jon Huntsman’s campaign in 2012, said he was “impressed” by the campaign kick-off.
(11) Some of them have opposed same-sex marriage in the past, including Meg Whitman , the Hewlett Packard CEO, and Huntsman.
(12) It was postponed due to MGM's financial woes, but having it finally hit screens after the success of Avengers Assemble and Snow White And The Huntsman also looked like a cash-in.
(13) "For me it is a choice between him and Ron Paul," said Breault, after listening to Huntsman's pitch on the factory floor in Keene.
(14) The video, entitled "Jon Huntsman's Values", was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday.
(15) As a public administrator, Huntsman knew this, and he saw the opportunity to go further.
(16) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(17) Among those who have signed an amicus brief urging the supreme court to strike down Proposition 8 are Tom Ridge, the homeland security secretary in the Bush administration who was once strongly opposed gay marriage; Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy defence secretary and leading neoconservative; and Jon Huntsman, the 2012 Republican presidential contender.
(18) Paul took 21.4%, Gingrich 13.3%, Perry 10.3%, Bachmann 5% and Huntsman 0.6%.
(19) Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman also has seven children, while frontrunner Mitt Romney and his wife have five sons.
(20) Of course, like the Huntsman girls, it is their collective movie-star looks that get noticed, especially by apparently fascinated journalists.