See Also: hound(dictionary)
hound(medicine)
hound(encyclopedia)
hound(1)(dictionary)
hound(2)(dictionary)
hound 1, noun(dictionary)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The(dictionary)
basset hound(encyclopedia)
Afghan hound(encyclopedia)
Hound's-tongue(medicine)

hound (iou)



hound verb trans. LME.
[from HOUND noun1.]
refl. Of a dog: copulate. (Foll. by on the bitch.) Only in LME.
Hunt (as) with hounds; spec. (US) track or drive (a deer etc.) with hounds until it is brought under the hunter's gun. E16.
Set on (a dog); transf. incite (a person) to the attack. M16.
J. L. Motley It was idle..to hound the rabble upon them as tyrants and mischief-makers.
Harass or persecute relentlessly; drive away, out, etc., by persistent harassment. L16.
Harper Lee Whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. R. Ingalls He was fed up with being hounded by reporters.