Venery

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Archaic Indulgence in or pursuit of sexual activity.
  • n. Archaic The act of sexual intercourse.
  • n. Archaic The act or sport of hunting; the chase.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The hunting of wild animals.
  • n. Game animals.
  • n. The pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
  • n. The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or exercise of hunting; the sports of the chase; hunting.
  • n. Beasts of the chase; game.
  • n. A kennel for hunting-dogs.
  • n. Gratification of the sexual desire.
  • Word Usage
    "Others again understand it of preposterous venery, which is absurd: every ancient law-giver framed his code to increase the true wealth of the people — population — and severely punished all processes, like onanism, which impeded it."
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    coition    hunting    chase   
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