noun. Any of various large dogs, such as the Irish wolfhound or the borzoi, originally bred to hunt wolves or other large game.

noun. A dog used in hunting wolves.

noun. Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.

noun. A dog of one of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves.

noun. the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves

"Ganelon could still remember, years before, a discussion of _King Lear_ during which the elder Ganelon had uttered a giggle of the hashish-eater's sort, a symptom of the early stages of oboe madness, and asked Gramont, "If a king named his eldest daughter Goneril, what would he call his wolfhound?""

Russian wolfhound  

hound  hound dog  

Irish wolfhound  Russian wolfhound  borzoi  

Pomeranian  `young  againt  bantamweight  black-and-gray