The general name of a family (Cervidæ) of ruminant quadrupeds, distinguished by the possession of deciduous branching horns or antlers, and by the…

Any beast of chase or other wild animal killed by hunting, esp. one of the deer kind. Now archaic.

Livestock, cattle, whether large or small. wild fee n. deer.

A hare; (also) a deer.

Of or belonging to deer, or the family Cervidæ; of the nature of or resembling deer. Also, absol. = cervine animal.

A ruminant mammal of the family Cervidæ, the members of which shed their antlers. Also attributive or as adj.

U.S. regional. An antler bud. Hence: a young male deer; (also more fully) nubbin buck.