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Webster 1913 Edition
Beagle
Bea′gle
,Noun.
[OE.
begele
; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. beag
small, little, W. bach
. F. bigle
is from English.] 1.
A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.
2.
Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.
Webster 1828 Edition
Beagle
BE'AGLE
,Noun.
A small hound, or hunting dog. Beagles are of different sorts; as the southern beagle, shorter and less, but thicker, than the deep-mouthed hound; the fleet northern, or cat beagle, smaller, and of a finer shape than the southern. From these species united, is bred a third, still preferable; and a smaller sort is letter larger than the lap-dog.
Definition 2025
beagle
beagle
English
Noun
beagle (plural beagles)
- A small short-legged smooth-coated hound, often used for hunting hares. Often tri-coloured, its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
- A person who snoops on others; a detective.
- 2002, Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See, page 243
- […] whereas burying a body in the wooded area beyond the backyard was the quickest way to make a Nassau County Police Department beagle look good.
- 2002, Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See, page 243
Translations
dog
snooping person
Verb
beagle (third-person singular simple present beagles, present participle beagling, simple past and past participle beagled)
- To hunt with beagles.
- 1933, Charles Pascoe Hawkes, Heydays: a salad of memories and impressions, page 20
- […] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy […]
- 1933, Charles Pascoe Hawkes, Heydays: a salad of memories and impressions, page 20
- To search.
- 1997, Fletcher Pratt, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, page 150
- […] Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.
- 1997, Fletcher Pratt, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, page 150
Translations
hunt with beagles
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biːɡəl/
Etymology
Noun
beagle m (plural beagles, diminutive beagletje n)
- beagle (dog)
Anagrams
Finnish
Noun
beagle
- beagle (dog)
Declension
| Inflection of beagle (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | beagle | beaglet | |
| genitive | beaglen | beaglejen | |
| partitive | beaglea | beagleja | |
| illative | beagleen | beagleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | beagle | beaglet | |
| accusative | nom. | beagle | beaglet |
| gen. | beaglen | ||
| genitive | beaglen | beaglejen beagleinrare |
|
| partitive | beaglea | beagleja | |
| inessive | beaglessa | beagleissa | |
| elative | beaglesta | beagleista | |
| illative | beagleen | beagleihin | |
| adessive | beaglella | beagleilla | |
| ablative | beaglelta | beagleilta | |
| allative | beaglelle | beagleille | |
| essive | beaglena | beagleina | |
| translative | beagleksi | beagleiksi | |
| instructive | — | beaglein | |
| abessive | beagletta | beagleitta | |
| comitative | — | beagleineen | |