Weasel

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, ·etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.

Related Words

Weasel
(Heb. holedh), enumerated among unclean animals (Lev. 11:29). Some think that this Hebrew word rathe...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Weasel
(choled) occurs only in (Leviticus 11:29) in the list of unclean animals; but the Hebrew word ought ...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Weasel-faced
·adj Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
weasel-faced
Thin, meagre-faced. Weasel-gutted; thin-bodied; a weasel is a thin long slender animal with a sharp ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
sea-weasel
An old name of the lamprey. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
to catch a weasel asleep
It is a common belief that this little animal is never caught napping, for the obvious reason that h...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.