(formerly) an ancient breed of large hound, usually white or light-coloured, having pendulous ears and strong powers of scent
[C16: supposed to have been brought to England by the Talbot family]
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C talbotis always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.