in full cry

English

Of a pack of hunting dogs: baying together while in active pursuit of quarry.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76:
  "I started straight for the Sukkestad-moor and had scarcely let the hounds loose, before they found scent and were soon in full cry."

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