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/ˈəʊvᵻsʌɪd/, /ˈɒvᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈoʊvəˌsaɪd/ Chiefly humorous. Now rare.
The killing of sheep.In quot. 1828 attributive.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun]
slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
1828 S. T. Coleridge On Passions in Shorter Wks. & Fragments (1995) II. 1452 Our own language supplies the appropriate name—Blood-thirstiness. Illustrative Instances—Tygers—ovicide Dogs.
1833 New-Eng. Mag. 5 357/1 He..slashed the animal's gullet from ear to ear... Next day master Joshua had to..pay forty shillings for being found guilty of ovicide.
a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 315 There it [sc. the wig] lay,—the little sinister-looking tail impudently perked up... Larceny and Ovicide shone in every hair of it!
1880 Daily News 15 Nov. 5/5 The mutton-bones which tell of unauthorised ovicide.
2003 tv.cream.org 28 May (O.E.D. Archive) Sheep-worrying saga with a loveable old sheepdog accused of ovicide and threatened with execution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
oviciden.2
/ˈəʊvᵻsʌɪd/, /ˈɒvᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈoʊvɪˌsaɪd/ An agent that kills or destroys eggs or ova, esp. those of insects, mites, or other pests or parasites.
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ovicide1929
1929 R. A. Wardle Probl. Appl. Entomol. vi. 135 The use of such emulsions appears to be ousting from favour, as ovicides and dormant sprays, the lime sulphur compounds.
1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 371/1 AzUR given orally is an effective ovicide in the mouse, terminating early pregnancy at dosage levels which produce no detectable toxic effect in the mother.
1985 A. Booth-Moores Garden Pools, Waterfalls & Fountains x. 91 As part of the life cycle of this pest is spent as eggs on the trunks and limbs of cherry and plum trees, a winter wash of these with a tar oil ovicide will reduce the incidence of attacks the following year.
2001 Canad. Pharmaceutical Jrnl. 134 46 As permethrin is an effective ovicide, removal of eggs [of head lice] is not necessary when this treatment is used.
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oviciden.3
/ˈəʊvᵻsʌɪd/, /ˈɒvᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈoʊvɪˌsaɪd/ The killing or destroying of eggs or ova.
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1985 R. H. Smith & C. M. Lessells in R. M. Sibly & R. H. Smith Behavioural Ecol. 423 (heading) Oviposition, ovicide and larval competition in granivorous insects.
1991 J. B. Cobb Matters of Life & Death iii. 78 Killing a fertilized ovum is ovicide, not murder.
2002 M. D. Greenfield Signalers & Receivers iii. 86 Some parasitoids..avoid superparasitism by ovicide.
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