vulpecularis

vulpecularis [CL vulpecula+-aris] 1 of or pertaining to foxes, (in quot., canis ~is or as sb. m.) dog used for hunting foxes. 1214 R. de E. debet vj canes wulperettos et baldos et vj alios canes wulpeculares Pipe 165 (cf. Pipe 20: 1218 R. de E. debet vj canes ~es et baldos et vj alios canes ~es); 1228 Vitalis Engaine debet iiij ~es Ib. 72 r. 9 (1) d.; 1230 Stephanus Haringot debet ‥ j canem wlpiclarem LTR Mem 11 m. 12 (2); 1233 Vitalis Engaine debet iij canes wlpicular' KR Mem 12 m. 7d.; 1271 dedimus ‥ Willelmo de S. E. ‥ xlviij li. et quendam canem ~em Cl 319. 2 (of cunning or sim.) typical or expected of a fox, fox-like. Hinguarus ‥ ~i astutia verbisque delinitis inducias ‥ impetravit H. Hunt. HA V 5; Edwardus ‥ a ‥ custodibus suis dextrarii velocitate recessit ‥ cautela quadam ~i fretus Ps.-Rish. 539; s1295 sciens ‥ imaginationes †vulpeculas [l. ~es] ‥ proditoris Eul. Hist. III 164.

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