small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck
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Weasel \Wea"sel\, n. [OE. wesele, AS. wesle; akin to D. wezel, G. wiesel, OHG. wisala, Icel. hreyiv[=i]sla, Dan. v["a]sel, Sw. vessla; of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. ?, ?, cat, weasel.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus {Putorius}, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.
{Malacca weasel}, the rasse.
{Weasel coot}, a female or young male of the smew; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a weasel. Called also {weasel duck}.
{Weasel lemur}, a short-tailed lemur ({Lepilemur mustelinus}). It is reddish brown above, grayish brown below, with the throat white.
These are the weasel words of the wily whip; they do not win anyone's respect.
Although an Oct. 23 letter to the president, signed by 38 GOP senators, opposed enactment of "protectionist" legislation, it contained enough weasel wording to suggest that several signers might still back away from upholding a veto.
His long winter coats in shaved weasel worked to look like corduroy velvet were a case in point.
"I plan on pleading guilty," he said. "What I did was wrong. I'm not going to try and weasel out.
Even her dangerous lines 'May the weasel and the otter be about their proper business' find a place amidst the evil in the dark.
The treaty itself repeatedly refers to this or that new or extended power of the appointed commission; the weasel words which, largely at Britain's insistence, trim these back have to be sought for in the small print.