lyam-hound

English

Alternative forms

limehound
lyme-hound

Etymology

From lyam +‎ hound.

Noun

lyam-hound (plural lyam-hounds)

(obsolete) A bloodhound.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Talus, that could like a lime-hound winde her, […] At length found out whereas she hidden lay / Under an heape of gold.

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