Definitions for bloodhound
ˈblʌdˌhaʊndblood·hound

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bloodhound, sleuthhoundnoun

   a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bloodhoundnoun

   A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.

2. bloodhoundnoun

   A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.

3. Etymology: From blood + hound. The detective sense follows from the dog's ability to follow a trail.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bloodhoundnoun

   A hound that follows by the scent, and seizes with great fierceness.

   Etymology: from blood and hound.

   Hear this, hear this, thou tribune of the people:
   Thou zealous, publick bloodhound, hear, and melt. Dryden.

   Where are these rav’ning bloodhounds, that pursue
   In a full cry, gaping to swallow me? Thomas Southerne, Inn. Adult.

   A bloodhound will follow the tract of the person he pursues, and all hounds the particular game they have in chace. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

   And though the villain ’scape a while, he feels
   Slow vengeance, like a bloodhound, at his heels. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bloodhound

   The bloodhound is a large scent hound, originally bred for hunting deer, wild boar and, since the Middle Ages, for tracking people. Believed to be descended from hounds once kept at the Abbey of Saint-Hubert, Belgium, in French it is called, le chien de Saint-Hubert. This breed is famed for its ability to discern human scent over great distances, even days later. Its extraordinarily keen sense of smell is combined with a strong and tenacious tracking instinct, producing the ideal scent hound, and it is used by police and law enforcement all over the world to track escaped prisoners, missing people, and lost pets.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bloodhoundnoun

   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

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Bloodhound

   The Bloodhound is a large scent hound originally bred for hunting deer and wild boar, but also used from the Middle Ages onwards for tracking human beings, and now most often bred specifically for that purpose. Thought to be descended from hounds once kept at the Abbey of St Hubert in Belgium, it is known to French speakers as the Chien de Saint-Hubert. This dog is famed for its ability to discern human odors even days later, over great distances, even across water. Its extraordinarily keen sense of smell is combined with a strong and tenacious tracking instinct, producing the ideal scent hound, and it is used by police and law enforcement all over the world to track escaped prisoners, missing people, lost children and lost pets.

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1. Bloodhound

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Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bloodhound

   A name given to certain species of the dog, distinguished for their keenness of scent, and the persistency with which they follow the track of game. They have been frequently employed during wars to track partisans, and even in the American civil war, 1861-65, were employed by the Confederates to track Union prisoners who escaped from their prisons. In time of peace they are sometimes employed to hunt felons, fugitive slaves, etc. When they are thus employed they acquire a peculiarly bloodthirsty and ferocious character.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bloodhound in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bloodhound in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bloodhound
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bloodhound
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bloodhound
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodhound
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodhound
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bloodhound
7. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bloodhound
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html