| 单词 | house weasel |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse weasel house weasel n. now historical and rare any domesticated weasel (genus Mustela); spec. the ferret, M. furo. ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 730 A house weasel is wont to be burned for diuers remedies, and to be imbowelled with salt, and dried in a shade. 1811 J. Brown Dict. Holy Bible at Weasel Weasels are of two kinds, the house-weasel, and the field-weasel or foumart. 1921 C. L. Woolley Kastamuni to Kedos ix. 153 Major Middlemass's armchair observations on the antics of the house weasel were lost on the way home. 1972 Sci. Amer. Nov. 130/2 They were taken into controlled breeding in Egypt less than 4,000 years ago; the Athenians still kept not cats but house weasels against their mice. < as lemmas |
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