lyam-hound
English
Alternative forms
- limehound
- lyme-hound
Etymology
Noun
lyam-hound (plural lyam-hounds)
- (obsolete) A bloodhound.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Talus, that could like a lime-hound winde her, […] At length found out whereas she hidden lay / Under an heape of gold.