ursicides

Noun

ursicide (countable and uncountable, plural ursicides)

1. (rare) The killing of a bear.
   • Bruin having perpetrated a charge worthy of Waterloo, is toddling off as fast as a rather extensive morning’s repast will allow him. / Having made sure of whatever remains of the wreck of eatables and drinkables by consuming them on the spot, a proceeding that in a great measure restores my...1847, J. Willyams Grylls, “The Out-Station; or, Jaunts in the Jungle”, in W. Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, part the third, London: Chapman and Hall, […]...
2. (rare) One who kills a bear.
   • I made for the barns to catch Bruin napping or lolling in the old hay. I entertain a vendetta toward the ursine family. I had a duello, pistol against claw, with one of them in the mountains of Oregon, and have nothing to show to point the moral and adorn the tale. My antagonist of that...a. 1861, Theodore Winthrop, “Life in the Open Air. — Katahdin and the Penobscot.”, in Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, […], published 1873, “Ripogenus”...