feral, ferine, savage
(adjective) wild and menacing; “a pack of feral dogs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)
(now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
(zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
ferine (plural ferines)
(zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
• Feiner, enfire, fineer, refine
Source: Wiktionary
Fe"rine, a. Etym: [L. ferinus, fr. ferus wild. See Fierce.]
Definition: Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale.
– n.
Definition: A wild beast; a beast of prey.
– Fe"rine*ly, adv.
– Fe"rine*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
