Note 391 — CANES VENATICI. Class II.

Minshæi Emend. in voce.

Hound is sometimes applied to all dogs, as if Minshew’s and Junius’s derivation of the term were correct—à κυνίδιον dim. à κύων: but in England the term most commonly signifies a hunting-dog, to which sense the A. S. huntian, hent-an, to pursue, to search after, affords a more probable root.