单词 | mustelle |
释义 | † mustellen. Obsolete. rare. A weasel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) weaselc725 vaira1387 foin1423 whitretc1440 mouse-hunt1481 mustelle1481 fitchet1693 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 110 The moustele is a right lytil beste. 1487 W. Caxton tr. J. Legrand Bk. Good Maners i. xiv This conscience that..awaketh us may be lykened to the mustelle, of whom recounteth the naturyens, that yf a man slepe in a shadowe place, in whyche there be a serpente, then the mustelle awaketh the man to the ende that the serpent hurte hym not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1481 |
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