† greundn.
Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound
greyhoundeOE
grifhound13..
greybitchc1330
grew-hound?a1400
greundc1420
long-tail1576
Grecian dog1607
fleet-hound1675
c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Douce) 126 The grete greundes were agast of þe gryme bere.
1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 471 As for the brace off growndes.
1513 in S. Glover Hist. County of Derby (1829) I. App. 61 A Greundes hed sylver and sabull quartered.
1519 Presentm. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1888) 32 That no man kepe no hown, grewand, nor spanzell.
15.. Sir P. Draycott in Lodge Illustr. (1791) I. 6 They [staggys] was not only cowrssyd wt sum grewnds, but also wt horsmen.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 93 She gaue me eke a goodly Grewnd.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xlvi. cxxi. 404 Still the Grewnd preuailes.
1816 Sporting Mag. 48 204/1 Those spaded bitches appeared to have been grunes or greyhounds.
1865 Derbysh. Gloss. in Reliquary V. 159/2 Grewnd, a greyhound.
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