Crossword-Solution: BLOODHOUND
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| Bloodhound | n. | A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “BLOODHOUND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Relentless pursuer | 1 answer |
| Canine tracker | 1 answer |
| Scents make sense to him | 1 answer |
| Tracking dog | 1 answer |
| AKC show entrant | 6 answers |
| DOG for hunting | 18 answers |
| Sleuth | 25 answers |
| Detective | 34 answers |
| hunter | 35 answers |
| Hunting Dog | 35 answers |
| seeker | 49 answers |
| dog breed | 61 answers |
| explorer | 72 answers |
| Dog | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with BLOODHOUND (5)
Now it was starvation, causing us to eat our own flesh;—now we were contending with the waves, and were drowned;—now we were overtaken, and torn to pieces by the fangs of the terrible bloodhound.
Halting on the plot of grass, he heard his mother’s voice, then Clara’s answer: “What I hate is the bloodhound quality in Miriam.” “Yes,” said his mother quickly, “yes; _doesn’t_ it make you hate her, now!” His heart went hot, and he was angry with them for talking about the girl.
What’s that little thing of Chopin’s she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay.” Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name.
Captain Nimrod was captain over two bands, namely, the tyrannical and encroaching blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was the great bloodhound.
Quotes with BLOODHOUND (3)
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind not unlike a bloodhound's, excoriating the congregation and condemning it to hell.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1987–2015).