Ferine a. : Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.

Ferine n. : A wild beast; a beast of prey.

Example:
What does this epigraph from The Call of the Wild mean?

Taxonomy
ferine, Wiktionary, Adjective, wild animal, Etymology, Pronunciation, Italian, free dictionary, search, Pertaining, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, languages, gentle, dalliance, wooded forest, Hampshire.

Defination from the web:
... phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) ... ferine f. Feminine plural form of ferino. Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ferine" ...