1. (n.)ermine a weasel of the Northern Hemisphere, Mustela erminea, having a white coat with a black-tipped tail in the winter.
2. ermine any of various weasels having a white wintercoat.
3. ermine the white winter fur of the ermine, often including the black tail tip.
4. ermine the rank or position of a king, peer, or judge who wears a robe trimmed with ermine on official or state occasions.
Etymology: (1150–1200; ME < OF (h)ermine, n. use of fem. of (h)ermin (masc. adj.) < ML Armenius, short for Armenius (mūs) Armenian (rat))
Definition of 'ermine'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)ermine the expensive white fur of the ermine
2. (noun)ermine, shorttail weasel, Mustela erminea mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white wintercoat
Definition of 'ermine'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)ermine a valuable fur-bearing animal of the genusMustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black
2. (noun)ermine the fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white
3. (noun)ermine by metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain
4. (noun)ermine one of the furs. See Fur (Her.)
5. (verb)ermine to clothe with, or as with, ermine
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