单词 | vulpicide |
释义 | vulpiciden.1 One who kills a fox otherwise than by hunting it with hounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun] slaughterman1389 dog-killer1592 slaughterer1648 buffer1699 pork butcher1763 knacker1812 serpenticide1817 vulpicide1826 piggicide1837 canicide1852 ursicidea1861 birdicide1866 insecticide1866 horse-knacker1937 pigeoneer1944 piscicide1953 1826 Sporting Mag. 17 367 Would that all the pheasants of all the Vulpecides..were heaped up on one pile. 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 23 I mean man-kind, always save and excepting vulpecides. 1841 C. Phillipps-Wolley Sport in Crimea 43 The absence of fences to make a run interesting, if runs took place in this land of vulpecides. 1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 357 Perhaps in the eyes of some as odious an appellation as that of regicide, or even vulpecide. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020). vulpiciden.2 The act of killing a fox otherwise than by hunting with hounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] slaughtera1300 to make larder ofa1330 murdering?a1475 fall1575 butchering1609 ovicide1828 felicide1832 poultrycide1841 piscicide1847 vealing1847 kill1850 slaughterage1854 birdicide1862 apricide1864 insecticide1865 vulpicidism1865 vulpicide1873 serpenticide1882 tauricide1882 vaccicide1887 leporicide1914 culling1938 cull1958 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) x. 245 Vulpicide, committed in defence of property and condemned neither by religion, nor by equity, nor by any law save that of sportsmen. 1888 Land & 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11826n.21873 |
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