Mustela

There's also the mustela congressa lobbyista, which is that mischievous grouping of Washington lobbyists who habitually team up with certain congress-critters to burrow loopholes in our country's ethics laws. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But even as the reforms were being written, mustela congressa lobbyista was busily burrowing its way into the new majority, inserting weaselly language that lets lobbyists continue slipping corporate money to lawmakers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.) ❋ Unknown (2006)

This cannot be the mustela of the antients, which is supposed to be the sea lamprey. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Catus (which Isidore derives from catare, to look for) = gatto, chat, cat, an animal unknown to the Classics of Europe who used the mustela or putorius vulgaris and different species of viverræ. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The ermine is of the genus mustela (weasel), and resembles the common weasel in its form, is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. ❋ Unknown (1836)

Europe and Siberia, and is also of the genus mustela. ❋ Unknown (1836)

Wallich informs us that the ladies of his time had recourse, on such occasions, to the brains of the mustela piscis. ❋ John Davenport (1833)

The several species of mustela are common, as the mink, weasel and polecat; (putorius) racoons and opossums, are in great abundance, these animals are esteemed delicious and healthy food. ❋ Unknown (1823)

It is a native of Northern Europe and Siberia, and is also of the genus mustela. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

Two or three kinds of large cats are said to have been seen; a _mustela_, something of the nature of the _Lutreola_, was shot near the Rio Sacramento. ❋ Otto Von Kotzebue (1816)