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greyhound

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English grighund , from grig- "bitch" + hund "dog" (see hound (n.)). The name usually is said to have nothing to do with color, and most are not gray. The Old Norse form of the word is preserved in Hjalti's couplet that almost sparked war between pagans ...

Usage examples of greyhound.

Sadie was a long-legged bluetick hound who ran with all the easy grace of a greyhound.

Christian was rambling among the sandhills with his greyhound Luke--an English dog, with a cross of the coarser Irish breed.

Passing the Bloemfontein-Ladybrand line at Israel Poort he swept southwards, with British columns still wearily trailing behind him, like honest bulldogs panting after a greyhound.

I hobbling over the ground like some decrepid wretch, and Toby leaping forward like a greyhound.

The dogs on the upper level are of hyenoid type, those on the lower are Abyssinian greyhounds.

The Greyhound swelled rapidly during the final seconds of its approach, flaps at full and nose high as it roared over the roundoff and dropped to the deck for a perfect trap on the number three wire.

At dawn the slowhounds had been out to start the deer and the greyhounds had been unleashed before noon.

Thursday, May 13, Grandmother left for Des Moines for a two-week visit with Uncle Mike, who was supposed to have come to Topeka for the funeral but who had missed it because the Greyhound bus bringing him had broken down.

Greyhounds and Trailways already parked at the Randolph Street terminal and Cee-Dee reception station.

No, neither the Trailways nor Greyhound offices in Riverside or San Bernadino had recently sold a ticket to a Jake Pickett.

Downtown, in the Greyhound station, Zoyd put Prairie on top of a pinball machine with a psychedelic motif, called Hip Trip, and was able to keep winning free games till the Vineland bus got in from L.

There were half a dozen black and white alaunts, which looked like greyhounds with the heads of bull-terriers or worse.

Greyhound bus ticket, at least that anybody recalled, but a wild kid like him was more likely to have hitchhiked, anyway.

The gaze-hounds, of which there were two taken just in case, were in reality nothing but greyhounds according to modem language, while the lymers were a sort of mixture between the bloodhound and the red setter of today.

They have a race of brinded greyhounds, larger and stronger than those with which we course hares, and those are the only dogs used by them for the chase.