grew-hound Obs. exc. Sc.
(ˈgr(j)uːhaʊnd)
Forms: 4 grewhounde, 5 grewhonde, grohund, grou, grw hund, 5–6 grew hund, grew-hund, grewe hound, 7–9 grewhound, 9 grue hound.
[app. an etymologizing alteration (as if meaning ‘Greek hound’: see grew a.) of greund.]
A greyhound.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1075 He grevede as a grewhounde. c 1440 Gesta Rom. lxxviii. 398 (Add. MS.) The grewhonde of aubry had kepte iiij. dayes the dede body of his mayster from briddes and bestes. 1473 in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 44 To fech a grew hund to the king. 1580 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 20 One brace of blacke grewe houndes. 1668 N. Riding Rec. VI. 124 Two Croft yeomen presented for keeping grewhounds. a 1802 Ld. Thomas & Fair Annie xxiv. in Child Ballads (1885) II. 70/2 Gin..I were a grew hound..Soon worried they a' should be. 1887 Scotsman 4 Mar. 2/2 Grue hound (steel grey) found; if not claimed in three days will be sold. |