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stercorary, a. and n.|ˈstɜːkərərɪ|
[ad. L. stercorārius, f. stercor-, stercus dung: see -ary.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to dung. Of insects: Living in or feeding on dung.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 6 The Stercorary or Yellow Flyes that feed upon Cow-dung. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 78 Innate and connatural to the place like the stercorary ferment to the cæcum. 1765Universal Mag. XXXVII. 130/1 The stercorary beetle is seen at fig. 5. 1864D. G. Mitchell Wet Days 17 (Cent.). 1869tr. Hugo's By King's Command iii. i. (1875) 114 The stercorary tribe which, like the envious, are addicted to defiling high places.
B. n. A place where manure is stored, a dungheap. Now rare or Obs.
1759Mills tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. viii. (1762) 29 Mud, or the product of your stercorary. 1792Washington Let. 14 Oct., Writ. 1891 XII. 239 That lately sown in Lucern from the stercorary to the river fence. 1828–32Webster, Stercorary, a place properly secured from the weather for containing dung. 1851Rural Cycl. IV. 338 Stercorary, a collection of putrescent manure in a position of security from injury by the weather. |