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plural bloodhounds
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. examples
(figurative) A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues. examples
(archaic) A bloodthirsty person. quotations
For now the despot’s blood-hounds with their prey,Unarmed and unaware, were gorging deepTheir gluttony of death; the loose arrayOf horsemen o’er the wide fields murdering sweep,And with loud laughter for their tyrant reapA harvest sown with other hopes; […]
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 263