Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • More than canine.

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  • It was exactly one form of Bessie's Gytrash, -- a lion-like creature with long hair and a huge head: it passed me, however, quietly enough; not staying to look up, with strange pretercanine eyes, in my face, as I half expected it would.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

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