FERRET
\fˈɛɹɪt], \fˈɛɹɪt], \f_ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of FERRET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
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hunt with ferrets
By Princeton University
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domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
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hunt with ferrets
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
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The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
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To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; - often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
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A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; - called also ferreting.
By Oddity Software
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The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
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An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe.
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To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; - often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
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A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; - called also ferreting.
By Noah Webster.
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Semidomesticated variety of European polecat much used for hunting rodents and/or rabbits and as a laboratory animal.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A kind of weasel, used to hunt rats and rabbits from their holes.
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To search perseveringly for or discover by cunning methods: with out: as, to ferret out a secret.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ribbon woven from spun-silk.
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A tame animal of the weasel kind employed in unearthing rabbits.
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To search out carefully and minutely like a ferret; to drive out by patient effort; -pr.p. ferreting; pa.p. ferreted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman