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Staghound

noun
1.
A large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound.





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"Staghound" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the immediate neighbourhood of the house, and not choose to follow her so far. But just as she reached that desirable vicinity she longed for, she was met by another danger, coming from the quarter from whence she sought safety. An enormous staghound dashed out from his covert somewhere, with an utterance from his deep throat which sounded sufficiently awful to Dolly, an angry or a warning bay, and came springing towards her. Dolly stood still dismayed and uncertain, the dog before and the bull behind; then, even before the ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... Staghound, description of the anecdotes of the Staling, profuse Starch, bandage, useful in fractures Stealing of dogs Stomach, anatomy and diseases of the case of the retention of a sharp instrument in the Strychnia, a valuable ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


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