Word Meanings - BEAGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix. 2. Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

Related words: (words related to BEAGLE)

• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• FIFTEEN
  Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• HUNT
  1. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson. 2. To search
• HUNT-COUNTER
  A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. Shak.
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• HUNTRESS
  A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana. Shak.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• HUNT'S-UP
  A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• HOUNDING
  The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. (more info) 1. The act of one who hounds.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• 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
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• HELLHOUND
  A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
• HAREHOUND
  See CHALMERS
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• SLOTHHOUND
  See SLEUTHHOUND
• FOXHOUND
  One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.