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Hircinous   Listen
adjective
Hircinous, Hircine  adj.  
1.
Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats.
2.
Of a strong goatish smell.





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"Hircinous" Quotes from Famous Books



... connection, whether, on that momentous occasion when the goats and the sheep shall be parted, the Constitution and the Honorable Mr. Bagowind, M.C., will be expected to take their places on the left as our hircine vicars. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... with scanty, hircine beard, and an expression changing often from spiteful to cunning, could belong only to a Yankee paymaster or commissary, detected in his frauds before he had made up a pile high enough to defy justice; for swindler ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence
... commit crime himself. Pah! according to that, he who would most thoroughly learn the philosophy of our carnal lusts must exchange natures with the goat. Pray, why do not you solicit Herr Urian to give you a hircine metamorphosis, Clarian?" ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various


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