in full cry

prepositional phrase

Of a pack of hunting dogs: baying together while in active pursuit of quarry.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Of a pack of hunting dogs: baying together while in active pursuit of quarry.

    "I started straight for the Sukkestad-moor and had scarcely let the hounds loose, before they found scent and were soon in full cry."

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76
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