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Ferine vs Berine - What's the difference?

ferine | berine |

As an adjective ferine

is pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

As a verb berine is

(transitive|rare|obsolete) to touch.

ferine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
    • the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) . . .

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    berine

    English

    Verb

    (berin)
  • (transitive, rare, obsolete) To touch.
  • (intransitive, rare, obsolete) To fall upon; fall.