Fitch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Vetch.

II. Fitch ·noun The European polecat; also, its fur.

III. Fitch ·noun A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

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