Weazle
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Obsolete form of weasel. alt-of, obsolete
"[…] I have made only ſketches of them, becauſe it is very probable that I may yet be under the neceſſity of giving the portraits at full length, and of writing under thoſe portraits the names of the weazles, wolves, and vultures they are meant to deſcribe—nay, even to detail at length the unexampled conduct of theſe perſons who have compelled me, being “Perplex’d in the extreme,” to have recourſe to my pen for a ſubſiſtence, […]"
Example
More examples"[…] I have made only ſketches of them, becauſe it is very probable that I may yet be under the neceſſity of giving the portraits at full length, and of writing under thoſe portraits the names of the weazles, wolves, and vultures they are meant to deſcribe—nay, even to detail at length the unexampled conduct of theſe perſons who have compelled me, being “Perplex’d in the extreme,” to have recourſe to my pen for a ſubſiſtence, […]"
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