LURCHER, a kind of hunting-dog much like a
mongrel gre-hound, with pricked ears, a shagged coat,
and generally of a yellowish white colour: they are
very swift runners, so that if they get between the
burrows and the conies, they seldom miss; and this
is their common practice in hunting: yet they use o-
ther subtleties, as the tumbler does, some of them
bringing in their game, and those are the best. It is
also observable, that a lurcher will run down a hare at
stretch.