Definitions for Hound

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Spelling: [hound]

IPA: /haʊnd/

Hound is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Hound (dhnou).

Definitions for Hound

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 Hound

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 Hound

At the end of the fourth season premiere, Arya and The hound stumble upon a tavern in the woods.

Sandor “The hound” Clegane was left to die of a ferocious ass-whooping.

The hound is begging her to kill him, but she won't grant him his last wish.

But The hound is just hungry, and no one gets between the scarred warrior and a meal.

If they presented an equal target he would fire at them rather than the hound.

And if I'd known as much about you then as I know now, I'd never have started to hound you.

The hound fell without a sound, and with equal ease he slew the second.

That's an old maneuver of his—to hound a man from a little crime to a big one.

In the end, the joke was on both of them: Brienne lost track of Arya and The hound was “killed by a woman.”

The other cab was pelting after him with all the enthusiasm of a hound on a fresh trail.