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Weasel

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Weásel. n.s. [wesel, Saxon; wesel, Dutch; mustela, Latin.] A small animal that eats corn and kills mice.

Ready in gybes, quick-answer'd, saucy and
And quarrelsome as the weasel. Shakespeare's Cymbeline.

A weasel once made shift to slink
In at a corn loft through a chink. Pope.

Sources: Shakespeare's Cymbeline (73) · Pope, Alexander (393)

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