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单词 lyam-hound
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lyam-houndlyme-houndn.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪəmhaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈlaɪəmˌ(h)aʊnd/ Brit. /ˈlʌɪmhaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈlaɪmˌ(h)aʊnd/
Forms: 1500s lyam-, 1500s–1600s lime-, 1600s leame-, lim-, ( lyne-, line-, liam- (also 1800s archaic)), 1600s, 1800s lyme-.
Etymology: < lyam n. + hound n.1
Obsolete exc. Historical.
a. A bloodhound.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > bloodhound
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1527 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 464 A cowple of lyam houndes.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N6 But Talus, that could like a limehound winde her,..At length found out, whereas she hidden lay. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Mut Chiens mut,..lyne-hounds, tearmed otherwise, Limiers de mut.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxii. 673 This crie of hounds..is in no sort allowed to the liam hound, so long as he draweth in the string.
1624 T. Scott 2nd Pt. Vox Populi 17 I had my Leame-hounds ready in euery corner to draw after them dry-foote, and fetch the Authors Coram nobis.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies vi. 43 He can do miracles with his Line-hound; who by his good Education ha's more Sophistry than his Master.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 98 There is nothing in that Countrey, so usefull as Liam Hounds, to find out these theeves.
1674 J. Wright tr. Seneca Thyestes 45 So when the Vmbrian Lime-hound through the field Hunts on a Trayl; and in a Leash is held.
1801 Sporting Mag. 18 100 One that leads a lime-hound for the chace.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iv. 74 He has the staunch lyme-hound to track the wounded buck over hill and dale, but he hath also the fleet gaze-hound to kill him at view.
1852 C. Kingsley Andromeda 446 Him Até follows avenging; Slowly she tracks him and sure, as a lyme-hound.
1897 D. H. Madden Diary W. Silence 22 The huntsman brought with him his liam-hound, a pure-bred blood-hound used for finding and harbouring the deer.
b. figurative. Applied to persons.
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1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iv. 40 Oh, hee's a pernitious limhound, turne him vpon the pursue of any Lady.
1656 S. Holland Don Zara i. v. 41 Or a second Helen proud of the lime-hound Paris.
c. As a heraldic cognizance.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > animals
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1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xli. xxx. 344 His cosin had a Lyme hound argent bright, His Lyme layd on his backe.
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