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Bloodhound   /blˈədhaʊnd/   Listen
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Bloodhound  n.  A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.






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"Bloodhound" Quotes from Famous Books



... bloodhound," said the landlord impressively; "just watch him. I knew what he was directly I ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs

... not hate my enemy the more because he turned a shoulder to this little bloodhound and ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde

... sound had broken upon the silence followed another formidable body of discordant sounds—the baying and yelling of sixty hounds—answering from the ramparts of Nideck. The whole pack gave voice at the same moment—the deep bay of the bloodhound, the sharp cry of the pointer, the plaintive yelpings of the spaniels, and the melancholy howl of the mastiffs, all mingling in confusion with the rattling of dog-chains, the shaking of the kennels ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian

... their guns and fired at the fleeing figure, but without effect; he got away, but they said he was a white man or nearly so. The search continued all day without effect, save the arrest of two or three strange Negroes. A bloodhound was brought from the penitentiary and put on the trail which he followed from the scene of the murder to the river and into the boat of a fisherman named Gordon. Gordon stated that he had ferried one man and only one across the river about about half past six ...
— The Red Record - Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States • Ida B. Wells-Barnett

... him a look of hate, emitted a noise that resembled a hiss, hesitated long enough to suggest violence, then with the air of a bloodhound with his tail between his legs, slunk up ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


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