lyam-hound

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lyam + hound.

Noun

lyam-hound (plural lyam-hounds)

  1. (obsolete) A bloodhound.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:
      Talus, that could like a lime-hound winde her, […] At length found out whereas she hidden lay / Under an heape of gold.
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