Obs. [ad. late L. equicervus, f. L. equus horse + cervus stag.] (See quots.)
[1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. cx. (1495), 851. In the londe of Perthes is a wylde cowe that hathe heer in her necke as an horse and is of the quantyte of an harte and therfore many men calle that cowe Equiceruus and suche a cowe is wythout hornes.]
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 57. The fielde is Mercury, an Equicerue, of the Moone.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 174/1. An Equicerve, or a Deer-Horse … is a Beast in the Oriental Countreys, having the body of a Horse with outward bended horns.
