Burst.—The first part of a run.
Burning scent.—When hounds go so fast, from the goodness of the scent, they have no breath to spare, and run almost mute.
Breast high.—When hounds do not stoop their heads, but go a racing pace.
Capping.—To wave your cap to bring on the hounds. Also to subscribe for the huntsman, by dropping into a cap after a good run with fox-hounds. At watering places, before a run with harriers.
Carry a good head.—When hounds run well together, owing to the scent being good, and spreading so wide that the whole pack can feel it. But it usually happens that the scent is good only on the line for one hound to get it, so that the rest follow him; hence the necessity of keeping your eyes on the leading hounds, if you wish to be forward.
Challenge.—When drawing a fox, the first hound that gives tongue, “challenges.”
Changed.—When the pack changed from the hunted fox to a fresh one.
Check.—When hounds stop for want of scent in running, or over-run it.
Chopped a fox.—When a fox is killed in cover without running.
Crash.—When in cover, every hound seems giving tongue at the same moment: that is a crash of hounds.