- beast of venery
- : any of the animals (as red deer, boar, wolf, hare) that might be hunted in the forests (sense 1) in medieval England — called also beast of the forest; compare beast of chase, beast of warren
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
beast of venery
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venery — noun /ˈvɛnəri/ a) The hunting of wild animals. But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of… … Wiktionary
beast of chase — 1. : any of the animals (as fallow deer, roe deer, fox, marten) that might be kept in or hunted under a chase in medieval England compare beast of venery, beast of warren 2. : a game mammal not used technically … Useful english dictionary
beast of warren — either the hare or the coney when kept and hunted in a warren (sense 1) compare beast of chase, beast of venery … Useful english dictionary
beast of the forest — see beast of venery … Useful english dictionary
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Red fox — For other uses, see Red fox (disambiguation). Red fox Temporal range: Mid Pleistocene–Recent European red fox (V. v. crucigera) Conservation status … Wikipedia
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