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n. Any of various carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a long slender body, a long tail, short legs, and brownish fur that in many species turns white in winter.

n. A person regarded as sneaky or treacherous.

verb-intransitive. To be evasive; equivocate.

phrasal-verb. weasel out Informal To back out of a situation or commitment in a sneaky or cowardly manner.

n. The least weasel, Mustela nivalis.

n. Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.

n. The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family.

n. A devious or sneaky person or animal.

n. A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.

v. To achieve by clever or devious means.

v. To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.

v. To engage in clever or devious behavior.

n. 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.

n. A small carnivorous digitigrade mammal of the restricted genus Putorius, of the family Mustelidæ, related to the stoat or ermine, ferret, and polecat of the same genus, and less intimately to the marten or sable of the genus Mustela of the same family.

n. The weasel-coot.

n. A lean, mean, sneaking, greedy fellow.

n. a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky

n. small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck

"The use of a target in weasel is irrelevant; it is required only because the analogy weasel uses is string "fitness" (correspondence to a known Englidh phrase) and string fitness is defined by human convention."

weasels   

person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody   

four-toed weasel    mexican weasel    pouched weasel    malacca weasel    mink    stoat    polecat    ferret   

weasely    weaselly    weasel word   

Diesel    diesel    easel   

mink    otter    raccoon    coon    porcupine    fox    coyote    squirrel    woodchuck    skunk