weazel

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English

Noun

weazel (plural weazels)

  1. Archaic form of weasel.
    • 1840, Frances Trollope, chapter III, in The Vicar of Wrexhill‎, London: Richard Bentley, pages 304–5:
      […] set fire to the library, and stifle him in it like a weazel as he is […]
    • 1888, J M Barrie, “The Old Dominie”, in Auld Licht Idylls, London: Hodder and Stoughton, , →OCLC, page 138:
      e disappeared into his house much as a startled weazel makes for its hole.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:
      Now the first time that his small weazel-eyes happened to light on Billy Budd, a certain grim internal merriment set all his ancient wrinkles into antic play.
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