a. [ad. L. anserīn-us, f. anser goose: see -INE.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a goose.
1839. Blackw. Mag., XLV. 689, note. The paté de foie gras, is the diseased anserine liver stuffed with truffles.
a. 1845. Hood, Forge, I. xi. No anserine skin would rise thereat, It’s the cold that makes Him shiver!
1855. Owen, Skel. & Teeth, 65. The swan and other anserine birds.
2. As the goose is conventionally (though erroneously) a type of unintelligence: Stupid, silly.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t. (1865), 9. If you expect me to hold forth in a ‘scientific’ way about my tree-loves … you are an anserine individual.
