nonce-wd. [f. L. lepor(i)-, lepus hare + -CIDE 1.] A killer of hares.
1788. Burke, Corr. (1844), III. 77. If he could pay the duty … he would cut off every soul of all the hares in the country … He will depute a gamekeeper; and then, lo you! he executes all his threats by deputy, and by deputy becomes a leporicide and a gentleman.
