Also vulpe-. [f. L. vulpi-, vulpēs fox + -CIDE 1.] One who kills a fox otherwise than by hunting it with hounds.
1826. Sporting Mag., XVII. 367. Would that all the pheasants of all the Vulpecides … were heaped up on one pile. Ibid. (1828), XXII. 23. I mean man-kind, always save and excepting vulpecides.
1845. Phillipps-Wolsey, Sport in Crimea & Caucasus, 43. The absence of fences to make a run interesting, if runs took place in this land of vulpecides.
1887. A. C. Smith, Birds Wiltshire, 357. Perhaps in the eyes of some as odious an appellation as that of regicide, or even vulpecide.
