venary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to hunting.
Example Sentences
- "there are oil-experts guaranteed to place their hands on petroleum with that unfailing energy with which the venary pig dives his nose above where the shy and shuddering truffle lurks in terror."
- "Beasts of forest are properly hart, hind, buck, hare, boar, and wolf; but legally all wild beasts of venary."
- "Cosmo, thus sadly musing, was little affected by the din of the beaters, the rush and crashing of the invisible deer, the crack of rifles, the silences, so full of mystery and suspense, and all the other incidents and phases of sylvan venary."
- "A forest (in the legal sense) is the right of keeping for the purpose of venary and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren, (which means in effect all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain territory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established for protection of the game(i)."
Etymology
From Latin venarius, from Latin venari, past participle venatus (“to hunt”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: venarius, venari