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m not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson. -- Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting. -- Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. -- Gold finder. (a) One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] Swift. -- Gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating…

priated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground. From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground. Milton.

To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.

n hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.

Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. W. E. Norr…

One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares. [Written also harier.]

as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. Toone. Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant. Shak. Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! Shak.

The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part. "The heel of a hunt." A. Trollope. "The heel of the white loaf." Sir W. Scott.

A photograph in colors. R. Hunt.

Photography. R. Hunt.

A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.

n heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.

of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.

See under Hunt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

e entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

t she shall remain. They intended evil against thee. Ps. xxi. 11. To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends. Shak.