Definition of "limehound" []

• A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. (noun)

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• "It is not her high abstraction of justice, Sir Artegal, who does the murderous deed, but his man _Talus_, retributive justice, who, like a limehound, finds her hidden under a heap of gold, and drags her forth by her fair locks, in such rueful plight that even Artegal pities her:"
• "Whatsoever the limehound started, the hero of the Netherland slew with his hand."
• "Then an old huntsman took a limehound, and brought the company where there was game in plenty."