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Conan Of The Isles;
• (piggy)- Informal a little pig; Not being armed with rifles, their weapons of
offence against piggy were revolvers, ropes, and the stretchers of the boats. —
Sketches From My Life;
• (swinish)- resembling or befitting swine; bestial; brutish; Polyandry is
considered swinish, and concubinage is unknown. — The Manóbos of
Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First
Memoir;
vulpine : vixen = harpy
• (vulpine)- of or resembling a fox, cunning, crafty, ( , ); There is
nothing bold or vicious or vulpine in it, and his timid, harmless character is
published at every leap. — Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers;
• (vixen)- female fox; The female, called a vixen, prepares a den before she
bears the young;
• (harpy)- in Greek myth, a winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the
face and body of a woman and the wings of a bird of prey, with the feet and
fingers armed with sharp claws and the face pale with hunger, (( . )
,
);
• a rapacious, grasping person;
leonine^ lionize
• (leonine)- of or pertaining to the lion, ( ); He was leonine is his
rage;
• (lionaze)- to treat (a person) as a celebrit, (
); Though he was lionized, he was lionized by people who understood
the sensitiveness of artistic natures. — The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and
Other Tales;
simian^ simulate
• (simian)- monkeylike, ( ); Her body was thin and tiny and her
face simian, a maze of wrinkles. — The Third Wexford Omnibus;
• (simulate) - to make a pretense of; feign, ( ; );
Consequently he disguised himself by wearing green spectacles and tying a
pillow over his stomach to simulate corpulence. — The Life of Sir Richard
Burton;
ursine^ ursa major
• (ursine)- of or pertaining to a bear or bears; He was ursine, with an
engaging smile that made crescents of his eyes. — Brown Waters, Black Berets;
• (ursa major)- a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the