Ferret

Noun

 * 1) A mammal rather like a weasel, but which was originally bred from the polecat and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits in England.

Scientific names

 * Mustela putorius furo

Verb

 * 1) To hunt game with ferrets.
 * 2) To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.
 * 3) * 1922,,  Chapter 1
 * She ferreted in her bag; then held it up mouth downwards; then fumbled in her lap, all so vigorously that Charles Steele in the Panama hat suspended his paint-brush.

Thesaurus
Argus, Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cat, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, eagle, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hawk, hedgehog, lynx, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

Etymology
furet:, ferret:, from firet, furet, diminutive of  fuiron:, from  furo:, diminutive of  fur:.

Noun

 * Albanian: qelbësi
 * Basque: hudo
 * Belarusian: тхор афрыканскі
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: fured
 * Bulgarian: пор (por)
 * Catalan: furó, fura
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tuhkur, tőhk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: pudîs blanc
 * Galician: furón
 * German:
 * Greek:, νυφίτσα
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: cat coille, toghán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フェレット (feretto)
 * Latvian: okšķeris


 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ласица
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian: frett
 * Occitan: fura
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: furão
 * Romanian: nevăstuică
 * Romansch: furet
 * Russian: хорёк африканский (horjok afrikanskij)
 * Sami: albinočáhppesbuoidda, ferrehtta
 * Sardinian: furittu, fughittu
 * Scots: futret (Doric dilect)
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: vretna
 * Slovak: Fretka tchorovitá
 * Slovene: beli dihur
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tamiller
 * Turkish: yaban, dağ gelinciği
 * Ukrainian: тхiр африканский (thir afrikanskij)
 * Upper Sorbian: łasyčka
 * Welsh: ffured
 * West Frisian: fret