different between feveret vs leveret

English

Etymology

fever +? -et

Noun

feveret (plural feverets)

1. (obsolete) A slight fever.
   • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani

     A light feveret, or an old quartan ague, is not a sufficient excuse for non-appearance.

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, diminutive of levre, from Old French lievre, from Latin lepus.

Noun

leveret (plural leverets)

1. A young hare less than one-year-old.
   • 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act V, Scene 5,^[1]

     […] Shall I die like a leveret,

     Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!

     I am slain!

   • 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller, London: H. Herringman,^[2]

     Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,

     Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,

     Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,

     Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;

   • 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book 10,^[3]

     As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;

     Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;

     Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,

     And from the herd still turn the flying prey:

     So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;

     So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.

   • 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 16,^[4]

     They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.

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