Anserine

To my knowledge,'anserine' is a perfectly respectable, albeit uncommon, adjective in our language. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

And that one was the victim of anserine necrophilia. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It is all very easy for you, middle-aged reader, sitting over this page in the broad daylight, to call me by all manner of asinine and anserine unchristian names, because I had these fancies running through my head. ❋ Various (N/A)

The gaff is blown, the anserine guard gives tongue with might and main. ❋ Various (N/A)

We have "progressed" from the manly independence and fierce patriotism of our forebears to a namby-pamby foreign policy that compels our citizens abroad to seek protection of the consuls of other countries from the spirit that made our flag respected in every land and honored on every sea, to the anserine cackle of "jingoism" whenever an American manifests a love of country or professes a national pride. ❋ Unknown (1919)

You are the state's hired hand, Charlie boy -- duly employed to remain at Austin and display your anserine ignorance in the governor's office. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Uncle Sam would have supposed this simian hubbub and anserine to-do meant nothing less than a new epocha for the universe, it being undecided whether it should be auriferous or argentiferous -- an age of gold or a cycle of silver. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Since then he had respected her person, but to the day of his death he had cursed her for anserine stupidity. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

One of their most charming bits of classic art is the famous miniature statue of the Gooseman; and the real name of the great Gutenberg, who, by his invention of printing, did more than any other mortal to make it easy for the human race to acquire the anserine mental habits, and the anserine moral characteristics, was Gänsfleisch! ❋ Price Collier (1886)

Perhaps the village lights embarrassed them, or perhaps the constant changes in the face of the country, from the clearings then going on, introduced into the landscape features not according with the ideal map handed down in the anserine family, and thus deranged its traditional geography. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Now, if you expect me to hold forth in a "scientific" way about my tree - loves, -- to talk, for instance, of the Ulmus Americana, and describe the ciliated edges of its samara, and all that, -- you are an anserine individual, and I must refer you to a dull friend who will discourse to you of such matters. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Now, if you expect me to hold forth in a "scientific" way about my tree-loves, -- to talk, for instance, of the Ulmus Americana, and describe the ciliated edges of its samara, and all that, -- you are an anserine individual, and I must refer you to a dull friend who will discourse to you of such matters. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Pacific Limited, said the centre would aim to build on links between chicken extracts containing anserine, carnosine, and other peptides, and mental function. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meat also contains unique endogenous antioxidants including carosine, anserine and others, along with iron and zinc, nutrients often lacking in the average diet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This candidate was chosen for the worst of reasons and cannot open her mouth without being anserine, vacuous, vapid and insensate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Finally are the qualities of the anserine, hebetate, anserine and inserate are unified within person. ❋ Unknown (2008)