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Venʹison

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Anything taken in hunting or by the chase. Hence Jacob bids Esan to go and get venison such as he loved (Gen. xxvii. 3), meaning the wild kid. The word is simply the Latin venaʹtio (hunting), but is now restricted to the flesh of deer.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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