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HERD

Volume 10 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

among hunters, an assemblage of black or fallow beasts in contradistinction to flock. See FLOCK.β€”In the hunting language there are various terms used for companies of the divers kinds of game. We say a herd of harts or bucks, a bevy of roes, a rout of wolves, a richef of martens, &c.