Word Meanings - HOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Hounds and

Additional info about word: HOUND

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. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak. 2. A despicable person. "Boy! false hound!" Shak. (more info) OFries. hund, D. hond, G. hund, OHG. hunt, Icel. hundr, Dan. & Sw. hund, Goth. hunds, and prob. to Lith. sz, Ir. & Gael. cu, L. canis,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOUND)

• Poltroon
• Scoundrel
• coward
• hound
• skulk
• dastard

Related words: (words related to HOUND)

• COWARDICE
  Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
• POLTROONERY
  Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
• POLTROON
  An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,
• SCOUNDRELISM
  The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.
• DASTARDLINESS
  The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
• COWARDIE
  Cowardice.
• SCOUNDREL
  A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope. (more info) scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun.
• DASTARD
  One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak. (more info) p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become
• COWARDLINESS
  Cowardice.
• HOUNDING
  The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. (more info) 1. The act of one who hounds.
• POLTROONISH
  Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.
• DASTARDNESS
  Dastardliness.
• 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
• SKULK
  To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked
• COWARDSHIP
  Cowardice. Shak.
• COWARDLY
  1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak. 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly
• SKULKINGLY
  In a skulking manner.
• DASTARDY
  Base timidity; cowardliness.
• DASTARDLY
  Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
• HOUND'S-TONGUE
  A biennial weed , with soft tongue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
• HELLHOUND
  A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
• HAREHOUND
  See CHALMERS
• SLOTHHOUND
  See SLEUTHHOUND
• FOXHOUND
  One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
• WOLFHOUND
  Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.
• SLEUTHHOUND
  A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
• GREYHOUND
  A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. (more info) Icel. greyhundr; grey greyhound + hundr dog; cf. AS. grghund. The
• STAGHOUND
  A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
• BUCKHOUND
  A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household.
• LIMEHOUND
  A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser.
• BASSET HOUND
  A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
• HOARHOUND
  See HOREHOUND