Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See greyhound.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) See greyhound.

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  • noun Alternative form of greyhound.

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Examples

  • Jacobo Angeles depicts a red grayhound with a striped tail.

    Jacobo Angeles depicts a red grayhound with a striped tail. The master artisan is a native of Oaxaca. © Alvin Starkman 2008 2008

  • You can imagine all 145 processions, how long .., almost the entirecity is crowdedwith floods of people, police forces, grayhound jawans.

    DURGA PUJA AT CUTTACK 2008

  • Gary calls him the grayhound of cats because he's so lean and lithe.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • Gary calls him the grayhound of cats because he's so lean and lithe.

    Cats! What could be cuter? Susan Palwick 2007

  • He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent; a grayhound with glasses tilted forward on his thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache.

    Main Street 2004

  • Railroad train and ocean grayhound, stage and pony cart, spurring horseman and naked brown runner sweating through jungle paths under his mail bags, would bear the news of me East and West, until they met in the antipodes and put a girdle of my loveliness right round the world!

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • Lady Luce was lounging in a chair, playing with a grayhound, and she looked up at him with a smile, then lowered her eyes, as if she were afraid their welcome should be too marked.

    Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

  • He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent; a grayhound with glasses tilted forward on his thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache.

    Main Street 1920

  • He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent;

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Now from the ship's gangway came seven trumpeters dressed in glistening plaids: each led with a silver chain a grayhound, and each of the seven hounds carried in his mouth an apple of gold.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

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