(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.
Terrier
Definition:
(n.) An auger or borer.
(n.) One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.
(n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like.
(n.) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.
(2) Livers of nine related Skye terriers with liver disease were evaluated for histological changes and copper content.
(3) A longitudinal study from peripheral blood, with samples collected every week, was performed between birth and one year of age on young Fox terriers dogs in order to determine the patterns of plasma LH, T, DHA and A concentrations.
(4) Fifteen cases, diagnosed at 10 different university hospitals, were Boston terriers, strongly suggesting that this breed has a familial predisposition for hypospadias.
(5) Pint from £2.90 The Three-Legged Mare Three Legged Mare, York One of three York Brewery pubs (the others are the Last Drop at 27 Colliergate and the Yorkshire Terrier at 10 Stonegate), the Mare is particularly handy, as it's almost on York Minster's doorstep.
(6) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
(7) As her energetic terriers Benny and Buddy squabble, nipping and harassing half a dozen other spaniels and terriers tearing after tennis balls on the softly sloping hill that marks the Battle of Bannockburn, Gail NcNeill looks up at the greatest hero of Scottish independence and grimaces.
(8) A recurrent lymphangioma in a 5-year-old Airedale Terrier was treated successfully with cobalt-60 radiation.
(9) A 1-year-old male Cairn Terrier was evaluated for chronic coughing that was aggravated by eating or drinking.
(10) In this world, wives are meek-but-cheerful servants (Asda mum doesn't even get a proper chair to sit on during Christmas lunch; she has to perch at the side like a terrier begging for scraps) while their husbands are lazy, oblivious arseholes.
(11) A technique is described for the elevation of depressed fractures of the zygoma using the straight mouth gag of Terrier, which is especially suitable for treatment of partly healed fractures.
(12) Depp and his wife Amber Heard reportedly stayed behind after putting the terriers on a private jet at Brisbane airport.
(13) House dust, house dust mite (D. farinae) and human dander were the allergens which most commonly caused immediate skin reactions and West Highland White Terriers and Boxers were the most affected breeds.
(14) As for Johnny Depp’s dogs, after the international fracas died down, Joyce was awarded the Froggatt award for principled decision making by the Invasive Species Council for “acting quickly and decisively” against actor Depp and his wife, Amber Heard, for allegedly bringing their Yorkshire terriers into Australia in breach of quarantine laws .
(15) A tumour in an 11-year-old male crossbred Fox Terrier, showing the clinical and pathological features of epithelioid sarcoma in man is reported.
(16) These observations illustrate that this inherited, chronic hepatic degeneration in the Bedlington Terrier is progressive.
(17) A 4-year-old Airedale Terrier that had developed estrogen-induced aplastic anemia had a complete recovery after supportive treatment and weekly administrations of nandrolone decanoate.
(18) The kidney of a 7-month-old male Cairn terrier with globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD) was investigated with light and electron microscopes.
(19) Analyses were undertaken of 20 cases of lens luxation in British-bred Tibetan terriers, together with a further seven from Sweden.
(20) A 6-year-old male Yorkshire Terrier had clinical signs including intermittent vomiting and diarrhea associated with abdominal distention.