Definitions for hounds

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Spelling: [hound]

IPA: /haʊnd/

Hounds is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in hounds (dhnosu).

Definitions for hounds

noun

1. one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
2. Informal. any dog.
3. a mean, despicable person.
4. Informal. an addict or devotee:
5. one of the pursuers in the game of hare and hounds.
6. Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
7. a horizontal bar or brace, usually one of a pair, for strengthening the running gear of a horse-drawn wagon or the like.

Idioms

1. follow the hounds, Fox Hunting. to participate in a hunt, especially as a member of the field.
2. ride to hounds, Fox Hunting. to participate in a hunt, whether as a member of the field or of the hunt staff.

verb (used with object)

1. to hunt or track with hounds, or as a hound does; pursue.
2. to pursue or harass without respite:
3. to incite (a hound) to pursuit or attack; urge on.
4. Informal. to incite or urge (a person) to do something (usually followed by on).

Origin of hounds

before 900; Middle English h(o)und, Old English hund; cognate with Dutch hond, Old Norse hundr, Danish, Swedish hund, German Hund, Gothic hunds; akin to Latin canis, Greek kýōn (genitive kynó

Examples for hounds

His thoughts, like hounds on a trail, raced off after this new scent.

So, to my great relief and pleasure, they started on after the hounds.

Oh, sure, the hounds of hell will be unleashed by the left to inflame fear.

The squatters had found that out when he blasted away at their hounds.

But the man proved to be a poor runaway like myself, and the one whom the hounds were after.

Wouldn't even pay attention to the packs of feral Iraqi hounds that yap and howl all through the night when people walk by.

Taking to the water threw the hounds off the scent of the track.

There were waiters with trays full of drinks standing behind the gospel choir, like someone might release the hounds.

Your men were playing a funny game—hare and hounds, it looked like.

And so Chávez jails and hounds critics, but keeps no gulag of political prisoners.