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WEASEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("weasel" is a kind of...):
mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weasel"):
ermine; Mustela erminea; shorttail weasel (mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat)
Mustela rixosa; New World least weasel (of Canada and northeastern United States)
Mustela nivalis; Old World least weasel (of Europe)
long-tailed weasel; longtail weasel; Mustela frenata (the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail)
muishond (southern African weasel)
Holonyms ("weasel" is a member of...):
genus Mustela; Mustela (type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("weasel" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb weasel
Context examples:
And, still in the air, the she-wolf's jaws closed on the lean, yellow body, and the weasel knew death between the crunching teeth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The seven ptarmigan chicks and the baby weasel represented the sum of his killings.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Not for nothing had he first seen the light of day in a lonely lair and fought his first fights with the ptarmigan, the weasel, and the lynx.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The weasel was a drinker of blood, and it was ever her preference to drink from the throat of life itself.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The she-wolf flirted her head like the snap of a whip, breaking the weasel's hold and flinging it high in the air.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He saw a weasel leaping swiftly away from him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The weasel never relaxed her hold.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Then, before him, at his feet, he saw an extremely small live thing, only several inches long, a young weasel, that, like himself, had disobediently gone out adventuring.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
While he yelped and ki-yi'd and scrambled backward, he saw the mother- weasel leap upon her young one and disappear with it into the neighbouring thicket.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This mother-weasel was so small and so savage.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
