pard

Definition

A leopard; a panther.

Etymology

From Middle English parde, from Old French, from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos), possibly of Iranian origin and related to other Sanskrit and Ancient Greek terms (see leopard).

Example Sentences

• "Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel …"
• "Ten Brace, and more, of Greyhounds, snowy fair, And tall as Stags, ran loose, and cours'd around his Chair, A Match for Pards in flight, in grappling, for the Bear"
• "In a mistake of the gall-bladder for some part of South America it is mostly found in the pard […]"