Sentence:  Both, however, were large, bony hounds, with long falling ears, but the southern hounds had absolute dewlaps, or at all events such excessive <WSD>throatiness</WSD> as to make them rejected in the present day on that account alone. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (with reference to a sheep or dog) The property of having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.