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Gazehound

Gazehound \Gaze"hound`\, n. A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.
--Sir W. Scott.

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gazehound

n. A hound that primarily hunts by speed and sight, instead of by scent and endurance.

Usage examples of "gazehound".

I only knew the tyke by the depth of his chest, the roundness of his foot, and his manner of baying, for the poor gazehound was painted like any Venetian courtesan.

The sign underneath the gas lantern depicted a bright blue gazehound in hot pursuit of an equally blue hare.

Cuddy was a gazehound, hunting by sight rather than scent, but like all hounds, she had keen senses of smell and hearing.

When Dorothy set her mind on something, it was like trying to pry open the jaws of a gazehound from its quarry.

One look and the gazehounds went whimpering off, leaving the three humans and the spirit alone beside the standing stone.

She snapped her enameled fingers and delivered a reproving coercive tap to her Chinese Shar-Pei puppy, which was poised to pounce upon the tail of Noetic Concordance's dignified Azawakh gazehound.

Last night's rain had drowned the scent, but gazehounds did not need their noses to hunt.

They darted ahead and then back like coursing gazehounds, sniffing out danger and herding Jameson and the others into side tunnels, or by example making them hide behind ducts and bulkheads till stray Cygnans passed.