Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hound that pursues by sight rather than by scent: commonly applied to the greyhound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A hound that primarily hunts by speed and sight, instead of by scent and endurance.

Etymologies

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gaze +‎ hound

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Examples

  • An adept led forth two white gazehound bitches, lean, long-legged, and graceful, on white leashes.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • So swiftly they followed the king-stag that they vanished while Sire Rodela was still talking about his favorite gazehound bitch.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • So swiftly they followed the king-stag that they vanished while Sire Rodela was still talking about his favorite gazehound bitch.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • So swiftly they followed the king-stag that they vanished while Sire Rodela was still talking about his favorite gazehound bitch.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Three adepts used hooks to catch the gazehound by her collar and the saffron cords encircling her body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • An adept led forth two white gazehound bitches, lean, long-legged, and graceful, on white leashes.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • An adept led forth two white gazehound bitches, lean, long-legged, and graceful, on white leashes.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Three adepts used hooks to catch the gazehound by her collar and the saffron cords encircling her body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Three adepts used hooks to catch the gazehound by her collar and the saffron cords encircling her body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • They were, although of different qualities, as well matched for device and execution of criminal projects as the greyhound is to destroy the game which the slowhound raises, or the slowhound to track the prey which the gazehound discovers by the eye.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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