Headed.—When a fox is going away, and is met and driven back to cover. Jealous riders, anxious for a start, are very apt to head the fox. It is one of the greatest crimes in the hunting-field.
Heel.—When hounds get on the scent of a fox, and run it back the way he came, they are said to be running heel.
Hold hard.—A cry that speaks for itself, which every one who wishes for sport will at once attend to when uttered by the huntsman.
Holding scent.—When the scent is just good enough for hounds to hunt a fox a fair pace, but not enough to press him.
Kennel.—Where a fox lays all day in cover.
Line holders.—Hounds which will not go a yard beyond the scent.
Left-handed.—A hunting pun on hounds that are not always right.
Lifting.—When a huntsman carries the pack forward from an indifferent, or no scent, to a place the fox is hoped to have more recently passed, or to a view halloo. It is an expedient found needful where the field is large, and unruly, and impatient, oftener than good sportsmen approve.[202-*]
Laid up.—When a vixen fox has had cubs she is said to have laid up.
Metal.—When hounds fly for a short distance on a wrong scent, or without one, it is said to be “all metal.”