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Lyme-hound

and Gaze-hound. The stanch lyme-hound tracks the wounded buck over hill and dale. The fleet gazehound kills the buck at view.

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“Thou art the lyme-hound, I am the gazehound… . Thou hast deep sagacity and unrelenting purpose, a steady, long-breathed malignity of nature, that surpasses mine. But then, I am the bolder, the more ready, both at action and expedient… . I say … shall we hunt in couples?”—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth, chap. iv.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lycidas
Lycisca (half-wolf, half-dog)
Lycopodium
Lydford Law
Lydia
Lydia Languish
Lydian Poet (The)
Lying Traveller (The)
Lying by the Wall
Lying for the Whetstone
Lyme-hound
Lynceus
Lynch Law
Lynch-pin
Lynchnobians
Lynx
Lynx-eyed
Lyon King-of-Arms
Lyonnesse
Lyre (The)
Lysander and Rosicrucius
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