venery

Venery \Ven"er*y\, n. [OE. venerie, F. v['e]nerie, fr. OF. vener
   to hunt, L. venari. See {Venison}.]
   The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the
   chase. "Beasts of venery and fishes." --Sir T. Browne.
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         I love hunting and venery.               --Chaucer.
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Venery \Ven"er*y\, n. [L. Venus, Veneris, the goddess of love.]
   Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
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         Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is
         continence; of unlawful, chastity.       --Grew.
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85 Moby Thesaurus words for "venery":
      act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, beasts of venery,
      big game, carnal knowledge, chase, chevy, chivy, climax,
      cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce,
      congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, coursing,
      cynegetics, debauchery, debauchment, diddling, dissipation,
      dissoluteness, falconry, fastness, fornication, fox hunting,
      gallantry, game, gunning, hawking, hunt, hunting, intercourse,
      intimacy, kill, libertinage, libertinism, license, licentiousness,
      lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act,
      mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, prey, procreation,
      profligacy, quarry, rakishness, relations, screwing, sex, sex act,
      sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress,
      sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, shikar,
      shooting, sleeping with, sperm, sport, sporting, stalking,
      still hunt, the hunted, unbridledness, victim, wenching, whoring,
      wildness