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91Christ treading on the beasts — Mosaic in the Archbishop s Chapel, Ravenna, 6th century …
92Confronted animals — The Gebel el Arak Knife, on display at the Louvre; the iconography on the reverse of the handle is two confronted lions, flanking a central figure (note confronted dogs and other animals below) Confronted animals, or confronted animal as an… …
93Cross fox (animal) — American cross fox, as illustrated by John James Audubon The cross fox is a partially melanistic colour variant of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) which has a long dark stripe running down its back, intersecting another stripe to form a cross over… …
94Magic Weisner — Sire Ameri Valay Grandsire Carnivalay Dam Jazema Damsire Bold Forbes Sex Gelding …
95Steppe polecat — Illustration from a Hungarian postage stamp Conservation status …
96biltong — [19] Biltong, strips of sun dried meat – anything from beef to ostrich – used as iron rations in southern Africa, has the unpromising literal meaning ‘buttock tongue’ (Afrikaans bil is ‘buttock’, tong is ‘tongue’). The reason for the name is… …
97griffin — (n.) c.1200 (as a surname), from O.Fr. grifon a bird of prey, also fabulous bird of Greek mythology (with head and wings of an eagle, body and hind quarters of a lion, believed to inhabit Scythia and guard its gold), from L.L. gryphus,… …
98rump — hind quarters, buttocks of an animal, mid 15c., from a Scandinavian source (Cf. Dan., Norw. rumpe, Swed. rumpa), cognate with M.Du. romp, Ger. Rumpf trunk, torso. Sense of small remnant derives from tail and is first recorded 1640s in reference… …
99heinie — n American the backside, buttocks. A coy diminu tive of hind(quarters) or behind, although spelt as if it were Yiddish. The term is innocuous enough to be used by mothers and children. He hit me daddy and then he kicked me in the heinie. (Date… …
100hindquarters — [[t]ha͟ɪndkwɔː(r)təz[/t]] also hind quarters N PLURAL: oft with poss The hindquarters of a four legged animal are its back part, including its two back legs …
