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A hound is a type of hunting dog used by hunters to track or chase prey.
Description
Hounds can be contrasted with gun dogs that assist hunters by identifying prey and/or recovering shot quarry. The hound breeds were the first hunting dogs. ...
is a type of dog that assists hunters by tracking or chasing the animal being hunted.
Hound may also refer to:
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Dog
The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative. Do ...
, any dog of the subfamily Caninae
Arts and entertainment
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''Hounds'' (TV series), a 2012 television comedy series set around greyhound racing in Auckland, New Zealand
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The Hound
"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of ''Weird Tales''. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the ''Necronomicon.''
Plot
The story opens with ...
", a short story by H. P. Lovecraft
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The Hound (singer)
John Robert Constantine (born September 3, 1986), known professionally as The Hound is a Los Angeles based singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Early life
Constantine was born in Los Angeles and was raised by his mother in the suburb of Santa ...
(born 1986), American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Fictional characters
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Hounds (comics), the name given to several groups of mutant characters from Marvel Comics
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Sandor Clegane
Sandor Clegane, nicknamed the Hound, is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones''.
Introduced in 1996's ''A Game of ...
, nicknamed The Hound, a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels and its television adaptation ''Game of Thrones''
Ships
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Danish ship ''Trost'', also known as ''Hunden'' ("Hound")
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HMS ''Hound'', a name given to fifteen ships of the Royal Navy
Other uses
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Hound (heraldry)
The hound or dog (also ''levrier, leverer''; French ''lévrier; dogue, chien'') is used as a charge in classical heraldry.
In English heraldry, the commonly used variant are the '' talbot'', also blazoned as ''sleuth-hound'', e.g. in the arms of ...
, used as a charge in classical heraldry
* ''Hound'', a virtual assistant app developed by
SoundHound
SoundHound Inc. is an audio and speech recognition company founded in 2005. It develops speech recognition, natural language understanding, sound recognition and search technologies. Its featured products include Houndify, a Voice AI developer ...
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De Havilland Hound
The de Havilland DH.65 Hound was a 1920s British two-seat day bomber built by de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome.
History
The Hound was designed as a two-seat general purpose biplane, a private venture to meet Air Ministry Specification 12/ ...
, a 1920s British two-seat day bomber built by De Havilland Aircraft Company at Stag Lane Aerodrome
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Hound, Hampshire
Hound is a village and civil parish in the borough of Eastleigh in southern Hampshire, England. The parish encompasses the villages of Netley, Butlocks Heath and Old Netley, and includes such landmarks as Netley Castle and Netley Abbey. In th ...
, a village in the Borough of Eastleigh, UK
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