Read full poem →Then gives a smacking buss, and cries--No words!
Or with his hound comes hallooing from the stable,
Makes love with nods, and knees beneath a table;
Dictionary Entry
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. hounddog houndhound bassethound oldhound afghan
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Poetry examples for “hound”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And sleep's are the tunes in its tree-tops heard;
No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart,
Only the song of a secret bird.
Read full poem →Though the world for their death's sake wail.
As a hound on a wild beast's trace,
So time has their godhead in chase;
Read full poem →Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts that sicken
Hunt and hound thee down to death and shame.
Read full poem →“ Like to the eager, but the generous grey-hound,
Read full poem →"Or did you spy a ruddy hound,
Sister fair and tall,
Read full poem →When Logan, the marshal, halted me
Called me a drunken hound and shook me
And, when I cursed him for it, struck me
Read full poem →The steps of the church in an angry rout.
And one would think that a hungry hound
Was out in the cold for the sound.
Read full poem →From Pluto's baleful bower withouten leave;
His music's might the hellish hound did tame.