Venary

Quick meaning: Venary is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to hunting.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to hunting.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) The sport of hunting.

Example Sentences

Beasts of forest are properly hart, hind, buck, hare, boar, and wolf; but legally all wild beasts of venary.

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.

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).

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include venatory, venatic, venatorial, venatical, cynegetic, gamely.

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