hound

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, from pre-Germanic (compare 🇨🇬, enlargement of  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬)..

In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.

Noun

 * 1) A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
 * 2) Any canine animal.
 * 3)  Someone who seeks something.
 * 4)  A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
 * 5) * 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,
 * "Are you alone, Goodson? I thought, perhaps, that the  young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?"
 * "She had a good many successors, John."
 * "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
 * 1) A despicable person.
 * 2) A houndfish.
 * 1) A despicable person.
 * 2) A houndfish.
 * 1) A houndfish.
 * 1) A houndfish.

Usage notes

 * In more recent times, hound has been replaced by Modern English dog but the sense remains the same.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: كَلْبُ صَيْد
 * Armenian:
 * Middle Armenian: զաղառ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, lovecký pes, honič
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: hagijas
 * Faroese:, veiðihundur
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician: braco, sabuxo, sabuio, corricón, lebreu, acadán
 * Georgian:, მონადირე ძაღლი, ქოფაკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Jachthund
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: cú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 狩犬
 * Macedonian: ’рт, загар
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: انجيڠ ڤمبورو
 * Rumi: anjing pemburu
 * Maori: kurī whakangau
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: gończy,
 * Portuguese: cão de caça,
 * Primitive Irish: ᚉᚒᚅᚐ
 * Romanian: câine de vânătoare,
 * Russian:, охо́тничья соба́ка
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: cani di caccia, cani braccu
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: asong pangaso
 * Turkmen: tazy
 * Ukrainian: гонча́к, го́нчий собака
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian:


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian: fimminaru


 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
From, from the noun (see above).

Verb

 * 1)  To persistently harass.
 * 2)  To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
 * 1)  To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
 * 1)  To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: nahánět, pronásledovat
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , ,
 * Norwegian: hundse
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:

Etymology 3
From, , , probably from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  Projections at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on; foretop
 * 2) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dog,  The canid
 * 2) A pet dog; a dog kept for companionship.
 * 3) A hunting or sporting dog; a hound.
 * 4)  A male or fully-grown dog.
 * 5)  A heraldic portrayal of a dog.
 * 6)  The forces of evil; the infernal army.
 * 7)  Sirius star
 * 1)  Sirius star

Usage notes
The general word for "dog" is hound; is vaguely derogatory and has a sense of "mongrel" or "cur".

Descendants

 * Northumbrian: hoond, hund
 * Northumbrian: hoond, hund