ˈsea-hound
[tr. L. canis marinus (Pliny).
Cf. G. seehund, Du. zeehond; also hound n. 5, hound-fish 1.]
1. A dog-fish.
| 13.. K. Alis. 5653 (Bodl. MS.), And a maner folk þer is yfounde Þat men hem clepeþ Cee hounde. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3781 ‘Marebellow’ [Fr. marine bélue] ys þe se hound. 1601 Chester Lover's Mart. (1878) 100 Here swimmes..The Sea-horse, Sea-hound, and the wide-mouth'd Plaice. 1669 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. iv. 133 In this place we saw a great number of Dog-fishes, or Sea-hounds. 1831 Keightley Mythol. Ital. & Gr. i. xix. 247 She [Scylla]..catches the dolphins, sea⁓hounds, and other large animals of the sea which swim by. |
2. Used allusively.
| 1905 Meredith October Twenty-first in Outlook 21 Oct. 533 [Nelson] Her sea-hound and her mortal stroke. |