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Webster 1913 Edition


Bestiary

Bes′ti-a-ry

,
Noun.
[LL.
bestiarium
, fr. L.
bestiarius
pert. to beasts, fr.
bestia
beast: cf. F.
bestiaire
.]
A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.