Usually means: Dog breed used for hunting.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hound: Merriam-Webster
  2. hound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hound, hound: Wordnik
  7. hound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hound: Wiktionary
  9. hound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hound, hound: Dictionary.com
  13. hound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hound (disambiguation), Hound (heraldry), Hound, The Hound (disambiguation), The Hound (singer), The Hound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hound: Rhymezone
  19. hound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hound: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hound: FreeDictionary.org
  23. hound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hound: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. hound: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. hound: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hound: Legal dictionary

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  1. hound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. hound: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HOUND: Acronym Finder
  2. hound: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hound, hound, hound: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hound: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See hounded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hound)

noun:  A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
noun:  Any canine animal.
noun:  (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
noun:  (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
noun:  A despicable person.
noun:  A houndfish.
verb:  (transitive) To persistently harass.
verb:  (transitive) To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
noun:  (nautical, in the plural) Projections located at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top on which to rest; a foretop.
noun:  A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
noun:  A small village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4708).

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