_Canis Gallicus_ was the name used by the Gauls for their coursing dogs, which were most probably greyhounds, and Arian says they were called _Vertragia_, from a Celtic word denoting swiftness. In Gallo-Latin the name for a large greyhound was _Veltrahus_ or _veltris_ (De Noir., ii. 295). They were also called _Veltres leporarii_ (Blane, p. 46). There is some difference of opinion as to the derivation of our word greyhound. In the early Anglo-Norman days they retained their French name of _levrier_, or Latin _leporarius_. When our MS. was penned the English word _grei_, _gre_, or _grewhound_ was in general use; it is thought by some to be derived from Grew hound or Greek hound, as they were supposed to have been originally brought from Greece. Others, again, consider that the name was simply taken from the prevalent colour of the common greyhound. Jesse gives the most likely origin of the name. "Originally it was most likely _grehund_, and meant the noble, great, choice, or prize hound" (Jesse, ii. 71; and Dalziel, i. 23). Probably the Celtic denomination for a dog, _grech_ or _greg_, stands in close connection with our word greyhound (Cupples, p. 230). White seems to have been the favourite colour, and to say one had _i levrier plus blanc que flors de lis_ (_Heruis de Mes_, 107a, 44; Bangert, p. 172) would be the greatest tribute to the beauty of one's hound. _Co si sunt deus leveres nurit en ma meisun, cume cisne sunt blauns_ (Horn, 613 f.). When Froissart went home from Scotland he is depicted as riding a grey horse and leading _un blanc levrier_, perhaps one of the four he took from these isles and presented to the Comte de Foix at Orthéz, whose names have been preserved to us as Tristan, Hector, Brun, and Rolland (La Curne de la Palaye). Greyhounds were used, as has already been mentioned, for all kind of hunting and every kind of game, in conjunction with limers who started the game for them. They were let slip as relays to a pack of running or scenting hounds, and they were used by themselves for coursing game in an open country, or were placed at the passes where game was likely to run and were slipped to turn the game back to the archer or to chase and pull down the wounded deer (_see_ Appendix: Stables). In our illustrations we see them in the pictures of stag-, hare-, roe- and boar-hunting, to say nothing of badger-hunting, for which one would have thought any other dog more suitable. They seem always to have been held in couples except when following their master and he not bent upon the chase. The collars to which these couplings were attached were often wonderful gems of the goldsmith's and silversmith's art. Such an item appears in the Q. R. Wardrobe Acc. for 1400 (Wylie, iv. p. 196): "2 collars for greyhounds (_leverer_) le tissue white and green with letters and silver turrets." Another one of "soy chekerey vert et noir avec le tret (? turret) letters and bells of silver gilt."