Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large white or light-colored hound having long hanging ears and large flews, formerly used in England for tracking and hunting.
  • William Henry Fox,British inventor and pioneer in photography who made photographic prints on paper treated with silver chloride (1838) and produced the first book illustrated with photographs (1844–1846).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of hound, probably the oldest of the slow-hounds.
  • noun In heraldry, a dog, generally considered as a mastiff, represented with hanging ears, and tail somewhat long and curled over the back: it is represented walking unless otherwise blazoned.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun An English surname thought to be of Norman (Germanic) origin.
  • proper noun An earldom in the British peerage
  • proper noun A brand of English motor car

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, personal name, from Old French.]

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