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▪ I. vulpicide1|ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd| Also vulpe-. [f. L. vulpi-, vulpēs fox + -cide 1.] One who kills a fox otherwise than by hunting it with hounds.
1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 367 Would that all the pheasants of all the Vulpecides..were heaped up on one pile. 1828Ibid. XXII. 23, I mean man-kind, always save and excepting vulpecides. 1841Phillipps-Wolsey Sport in Crimea & Caucasus 43 The absence of fences to make a run interesting, if runs took place in this land of vulpecides. 1887A. C. Smith Birds Wiltshire 357 Perhaps in the eyes of some as odious an appellation as that of regicide, or even vulpecide. ▪ II. ˈvulpicide2 Also vulpe-. [f. as prec. + -cide 2.] The act of killing a fox otherwise than by hunting with hounds.
1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. x. (1877) 245 Vulpicide, committed in defence of property and condemned neither by religion, nor by equity, nor by any law save that of sportsmen. 1888Land & Water 13 Oct. 427/2 Dandie Dinmont doubtless excelled in sportsmanship,..yet his method would be denominated vulpecide in any of the shires to-day. |