greyhound
Speech parts
1. greyhound - Noun
2. greyhound - Verb
Meaning
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.
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Examples
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound.
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
I took a Greyhound bus to New York and stayed at the YMCA, fifty cents a night. I took my stories around to a dozen publishers. Nobody wanted them. They said, We don't publish stories. Nobody reads them. Don't you have a novel?
It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail.
Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her.
A greyhound finds food in its feet.