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A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.

The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.

return to mellow age. Wordsworth. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.

The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines. Otter hound, Otter dog (Zoöl.), a small breed of hounds, used in England for hunting otters. -- Otter sheep. See Ancon sheep, under Ancon. -- Otter shell (Zoöl.), very large bivalve mollusk (Schizothærus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America…

in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. Chapman.

A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.[Obs.]

A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.

To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal. We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here. Sir. W. Scott.

military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] -- To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.

A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. [Eng. Slang.]

boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope.

e veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

ing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.

Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.

To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

A hound. [Obs.]