ursine

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"Where Jenkins had been all this while, -- steadfastly navigating to and fro, steadfastly eating tough junk with a wetting of rum; not thinking too much of past labors, yet privately 'always keeping his lost Ear in cotton' (with a kind of ursine piety, or other dumb feeling), -- no mortal now knows.

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  1. adjective Of or characteristic of bears or a bear.

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  • An ursine-headed minion offers her a chocolate, gently balanced between two pointy bear-claws. —  FSF, July 2006
  • Mirrors loomed before them, distorting their reflections, so that Humfrey resembled now a goblin, now a squat ghoul, now an imp, while Imbri passed through stages of bovine, ursine, and caprine resemblances. —  Night Mare
  • He was ursine, with an engaging smile that made crescents of his eyes. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • · Unique coverage of related terms such as bear: ursine, blue: cyanic —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • However, you simply cannot be an ursine major when lending starts. —  AOL News
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  1. Latin ursīnus, from ursus, bear; see r̥tko- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French ursin = Italian orsino, from Latin ursinus, of, pertaining to, or resembling a bear, from ursus = Greek ἀρκτος, a bear (see arctic).
 

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