FOXHOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foxhound mean? 

• FOXHOUND (noun)
  The noun FOXHOUND has 1 sense:

1. medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes

  Familiarity information: FOXHOUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOXHOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("foxhound" is a kind of...):

hound; hound dog (any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foxhound"):

American foxhound (an American breed of foxhounds used for hunting both in packs and individually)

Walker foxhound; Walker hound (an American breed of foxhound)

English foxhound (an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs)

 Context examples 

He was out on the lawn, in through the window, round the room, and up into the bedroom, for all the world like a dashing foxhound drawing a cover.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we descended I followed Holmes into the stable yard, where he opened the door of a loose-box and led out a squat, lop-eared, white-and-tan dog, something between a beagle and a foxhound.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy,” cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, “I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent—such was the change in Holmes since the morning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)