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单词 gaze-hound
释义

gaze-houndn.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s gase-hound.
Etymology: < gaze n. + hound n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgaze-hound.
Now chiefly historical.
A species of dog used in hunting, which follows its prey by sight and not by scent.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that follows prey by scent or sight
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1570 J. Caius De Canibus Britannicis f. 11 Similiter a verbo nostrati gase, (quod fixius rem aliquam contueri est) Gasehunde appellatur nostris, quem ante Agasæum nominari diximus.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iv. 9 English-Mastiffes, Gase Hounds (or Lurchers) and Tumblers, are in special request.
1714 Tickell in Steele's Poet. Misc. 178 See'st thou the Gaze-hound! how with Glance severe From the close Herd he marks the destin'd Deer!
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. Introd. 61 And foresters, in green-wood trim, Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xxii. 250 I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard.
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