English

Alternative forms

• limehound
• lyme-hound

Noun

lyam-hound ‎(plural lyam-hounds)

1. (obsolete) A bloodhound.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:

     Talus, that could like a lime-hound winde her, […] At length found out whereas she hidden lay / Under an heape of gold.