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a weasel, Mustela nivalis, of northern regions, that grows to a length of about 6 inches (15 centimeters).

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Also called pygmy weasel.

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Note the weasel words (a term they do actually teach in law school): “affected community.”
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To be fair, this is one of the least-insulting comparisons Watters could have made.
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In the usual weasel language: more observations were needed.
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He has one of the least-lined faces of anyone I have ever met.
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Courage, that a poor private carrying a musket has to spare of; that does not fail a weasel or a rat; that is a brutish faculty?
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They have both been sometimes confounded with the weasel of Virginia, the genet, the musk-deer, and even with the hyna.
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Then the father recollected his perjured vow, and his witnesses, the weasel and the well.
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