Definition for BLOOD'-HOUND

BLOOD'-HOUND, n. [blood and hound.]

A species of Canis or dog, with long smooth and pendulous ears, remarkable for the acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover game which has escaped wounded from the hunter, by tracing the lost animal by the blood it had spilt; whence the name of the dog. – Encyc.

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