a. Having two legs: usually as an epithet suggestive of a human being having the qualities of the animal named.

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1561.  B. Googe, Palingenius’ Zodiac Life, I. A vj b. What a sort ther be of twolegd Asses clothed In gold and silke and purple.

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1575.  Gamm. Gurton, V. ii. Thy neighbours hens yu takest, and playes the two legged fox.

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1693.  Dryden, Juvenal, X. 388. Next to the Raven’s Age, the Pylian King Was longest liv’d of any two-legg’d thing.

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1719.  De Foe, Crusoe (1840), I. xix. 348. A kind of two-legged wolves.

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1815.  Scott, Guy M., xlviii. The mate of the two-legged Cerberus.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. v. (1872), II. 97. Countries … infested with a new species of predatory two-legged animals: Prussian recruiters.

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