hell hound

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• Hound

  ·noun A despicable person. II. Hound ·noun A <<Houndfish>>. III. Hound ·vt To hunt or chase with h...

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• hound

  n. (sometimes Smooth Hound),the Old World name for all the sharks of the genus Mustelus («the Hell-...

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• Hell

  ·vt A gambling house. II. Hell ·vt To <<Overwhelm>>. III. Hell ·vt A place where outcast persons o...

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• Hell

  Derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hell

  A taylor's repository for his stolen goods, called cabbage: see CABBAGE. Little hell; a small dark c...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hell

  In the Old Testament this is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render ...

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• Basset hound

  ·- A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog. ...

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• smooth hound

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• kangaroo-hound

  n. i.q. kangaroo-dog (q.v.). 1865. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 28: «A large do...

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• hound-fish

  The old Anglo-Saxon term for dog-fish húnd-fisc. ...

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• Hell-cat

  ·noun A witch; a hag. ...

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• Hell-diver

  ·noun The <<Dabchick>>. ...

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• Hell-haunted

  ·adj Haunted by devils; hellish. ...

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• floating hell

  The hulks. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hell cat

  A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See termagant and vixen. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hell-afloat

  A vessel with a bad name for tyranny. ...

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• hell-born babe

  A lewd graceless youth, one naturally of a wicked disposition. ...

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• hell fire dick

  The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...

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