Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/July 31

Word of the day
for July 31

brach n (archaic)

(chiefly hunting) Originally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any female hound; a bitch hound. [...]

Today is one of two National Mutt Days in the year in the USA established by the American animal welfare advocate Colleen Paige.