- a variation of greyhound.
grayhound
Americannoun
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"In the same field, the cow eats grass; the grayhound hunts the hare; and the stork helps himself to the frogs."
From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by Griffis, William Elliot
He looked down like a compassionate mastiff upon a distressed Italian grayhound.
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
The foxhound is a cross of the bloodhound, the grayhound, the bulldog and the chump.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
Now, my dogs chanced to be some very degenerate specimens of a fine species, called the Poligar dog, which I should designate as a sort of wiry-haired grayhound, without scent.
From Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by Brayman, James O.
The great mastiff barked from the dog-house; the stag-hound, and the grayhound, and the spaniel, issued barking from the hall-door, and my Lady Lillycraft's little dogs ramped and barked from the parlour window.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington
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