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