ferocity
121bandog — noun Etymology: Middle English bandogge, from band + dogge dog Date: 14th century a dog kept tied to serve as a watchdog or because of its ferocity …
122brutal — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French, from Medieval Latin brutalis, from Latin brutus more at brute Date: 15th century 1. archaic typical of beasts ; animal 2 …
123fierce — adjective (fiercer; fiercest) Etymology: Middle English fiers, from Anglo French fer, fers, fiers, from Latin ferus wild, savage; akin to Greek thēr wild animal Date: 14th century 1. a. violently hostile or aggressive in temperament b. given to… …
124lion — noun (plural lions) Etymology: Middle English lioun, from Anglo French leun, lion, from Latin leon , leo, from Greek leōn Date: 12th century 1. a. or plural lion a large heavily built social cat (Panthera leo) of open or rocky areas chiefly of… …
125truculent — adjective Etymology: Latin truculentus, from truc , trux savage; perhaps akin to Middle Irish trú doomed person Date: circa 1540 1. feeling or displaying ferocity ; cruel, savage 2. deadly, destructive 3. scathingly harsh ; vitriolic < …
126vaunted — adjective Date: 1567 highly or widely praised or boasted about < his own much vaunted ferocity Calvin Tomkins > …
127vicious — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French vicios, from Latin vitiosus full of faults, corrupt, from vitium vice Date: 14th century 1. having the nature or quality of vice or immorality ; depraved 2. defective, faulty; also invalid 3 …
128Abner Doubleday — Infobox Military Person name=Abner Doubleday born= birth date|1819|6|26 died= death date and age|1893|1|26|1819|6|26 caption=Abner Doubleday placeofbirth=Ballston Spa, New York placeofdeath=Mendham, New Jersey placeofburial=Arlington National… …
