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Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..

Race :: Race (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed..

Greyhound :: Greyhound (n.) A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments..

Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.

Scrub :: Scrub (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc..

Punch :: Punch (n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch..

Foxhound :: Foxhound (n.) One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.

Devon :: Devon (n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen..

Dysgenesic :: Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another..

Teeth :: Teeth (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth..

Mongrel :: Mongrel (a.) Not of a pure breed.

Lurcher :: Lurcher (n.) One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers..

Breedbate :: Breedbate (n.) One who breeds or originates quarrels.

Overbreed :: Overbreed (v. t.) To breed to excess.

Nidus :: Nidus (n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed..

Coachdog :: Coachdog () One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.

Imbreed :: Imbreed (v. t.) To generate within; to inbreed.

Twinner :: Twinner (n.) One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.

Shanghai :: Shanghai (n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.

Bred :: Bred () imp. & p. p. of Breed.

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