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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A weasel.
  • noun A wand or staff of authority.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A wand or staff of authority or justice.
  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A weasel.
  • noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] a female or young male of the smew; a weasel duck; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a vare, or weasel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, dialect A weasel.

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