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5. A fine roe at this season [December] makes better venison than either red or fallow deer; but when not in the pride of their grease their flesh is so much carrion. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 513. (c) Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed; specifically, in her ., a term applicable to the peacock, turkey-cock, and other birds which spread their tails in a circular form, and drop their wings: as, a peacock in his pride . Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride , Did spred so broad that heavens light did hide.