单词 | running hound |
释义 | > as lemmasrunning hound a. Of an animal, esp. a dog: that is raised or kept for pursuing animals in the course of a hunt. Frequently in running hound.In later use often interpreted as an attributive use of running n.In quot. 1628 perhaps: not restrained or confined, free to roam. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > miscellaneous kinds of titlerc1400 running houndc1425 overrunner1742 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 58 Rennyng houndis hunten in diuers maners, for sum folowyng þe hert fast at þe frist..Oþer..rennyng houndis..hunten..moor slowly. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 102 Thirty couple of blacke rennynge houndis com afftir with a grete cry. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. iv. 46 The ryning hundis of cuplis sone thai kest. c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. 189 The hunting..uith rinning houndis quhilke is the..noblest sorte thairof. 1619 Helpe to Discourse 172 Miso, because I hunted in his grounds Let lose his running dogges, and baukt my hounds. 1628 Orkney & Shetland Acts in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1840) II. 203 That no man sall keip running doggis that runnes fra hous to hous or throw the cuntrie slaeing thair nychtbouris sheip. 1687 R. Wolley tr. N. Besongne Present State France (new ed.) xxiv. 200 A Pack of Running-Hounds, to the number of 70. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rechacing The keeping of running Dogs, to rechace the Deer into the Forests. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. xi. 164 Some of the men, throwing themselves upon the ‘running horses’ kept for hunting, galloped off to reconnoitre. 1866 Bell's Life in London 8 Sept. 2/2 (advt.) Beagle harriers.—For sale, five or six couple of running hounds and one and a half couple of puppies. 1892 Horse & Hound 21 May 325/1 Hound sale at Rugby... The running hounds, with the exception of Mr. Fernie's, were not to be compared with those offered last year. 1931 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. 46 171 The hounds loosed are raches or running hounds. The method of procedure was to use raches who hunt by scent to rouse and rout out the game. 2002 S. Smith Encycl. N. Amer. Sporting Dogs 227/2 This breed is often used with running hounds to bolt game from dens when they go to ground. < as lemmas |
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