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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1513, 1590
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Hel(l)-hound, -hund, n. [ME. helle-hound, OE. helle-hund.] — a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 515.
Symon ... band ane hell hound [L. maximum canem] at his ȝete 1513 Doug. vi. iv. 44.
Amang the schaddowys … The hell hundis [v.r. houndis] hard thai ȝowl and bark 1590 Burel Pilgr. ii. xviii.
Fast fering and dering That helhound auld and hair
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