Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The nair, or Oriental otter, Lutra nair, translating a Mahratta name.
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Examples
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Being carnivorous and hungry, it scooped up the body of the water-cat and fed without any prolonged ceremony.
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He was hardly out of sight of the bush which had sheltered him when he heard the coughing roar of a water-cat.
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Through gaps they could see the opening where lay the body of the water-cat.
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One, armed and clawed as the scavengers, was nearly as large as a water-cat.
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Only, that formless half seen thing, hardly to be distinguished in color from the vegetation, was no water-cat.
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The water-cat had been close to death by starvation; its attack on the men probably had been sparked by sheer desperation.
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Rynch grabbed the man's shoulder, jerked him away from the body of the female water-cat.
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"I came here for a water-cat, and a water-cat I'm going to have.
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Chambriss just wants to get his water-cat, but he could become nasty if anyone tried to steer him. "
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