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Staghound   Listen
noun
Staghound  n.  (Zool.) A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Staghound" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the immediate neighbourhood of the house, and not choose to follow her so far. But just as she reached that desirable vicinity she longed for, she was met by another danger, coming from the quarter from whence she sought safety. An enormous staghound dashed out from his covert somewhere, with an utterance from his deep throat which sounded sufficiently awful to Dolly, an angry or a warning bay, and came springing towards her. Dolly stood still dismayed and uncertain, the dog before and the bull behind; then, even before the ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner



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