Hunting. The scent, the track; (also) a call of a horn to signify that a hound has found the scent. Obsolete.

Footprints or track of a deer, esp. a buck or fallow deer. Obsolete.

A track of blood left by a wounded deer or other quarry in a hunt. by persue: by following such a track of blood. Also in extended use.

Chiefly in plural. The traces left by a stag in the undergrowth through which it has passed. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

Hunting. (See quot.) Obsolete.

The track of a hunted animal.

In plural. The footprints or tracks of an otter. Obsolete.

Hunting. A section of thicket exhibiting signs that a deer of a particular size has passed through. Now rare.

Hunting. Length of stride (of a deer) as shown by his footmarks. Obsolete.

The run or track of a hare; also, to run her file (see quot. 1838).

Hunting. = foil, n.4 (Cf. stain, v. 4d.)