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Webster 1913 Edition
Ferine
Fe′rine
,Adj.
Wild; untamed; savage;
as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are
. ferine
beastsSir M. Hale.
Noun.
A wild beast; a beast of prey.
Fe′rine-ly
, adv.
Fe′rine-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ferine
FE'RINE
,Adj.
Wild; untamed; savage. Lions, tigers, wolves and bears are ferine beasts.
Definition 2024
ferine
ferine
English
Adjective
ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)
- (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
- the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) . . .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162: