Hircine

Quick meaning: Hircine is an adjective meaning (book word, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats.

Meaning

(book word, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats.

More Meanings

1. Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats.
2. Libidinous; lustful.
3. (mineralogy) A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma.

Example Sentences

They are monſtrouſly fat, and have a moſt hircine ſmell.

Linnæus formed seven classes of odours of medicines; namely, the aromatic, fragrant, ambrosiac, alliaceous, hircine, fetid, and nauseous.

1838, Hypericaceæ, entry in The Penny Cyclopaedia, Volume 12, page 411, Many are objects of ornament, but they are little cultivated because they have frequently a disagreeable hircine odour.

People always smiled a little when they looked at Skøieren, and it was surely true that this dog had a most whimsical appearance, practically lost as he was in the depths of his hircine coat of fur.

Word Forms

• hirquine

Synonyms for hircine

Depending on context, synonyms include hircic, hircose, caprine, goaten, goatish, goaty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caprine, rhinocerotic, rhinocerical, hyracine, hercynitic, rhinocerial.

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