Definition of ermine

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Ermine (n.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (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..

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Judge :: "Judge (a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence..
Authenticate :: Authenticate (v. t.) To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait..
Ermine :: Ermine (n.) By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
Protoorganism :: Protoorganism (n.) An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
Trilemma :: Trilemma (n.) A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.
Appearance :: Appearance (n.) Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him..
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Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
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Arbiter :: Arbiter (n.) A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them..
Indicatrix :: Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic..
Determined :: Determined (imp. & p. p.) of Determin.
Predeterminate :: Predeterminate (a.) Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God..
Determinism :: Determinism (n.) The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives..
Weasel :: Weasel (n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons..
Ermines :: Ermines (n.) Alt. of Erminoi.
Congress :: Congress (n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest..
Determinableness :: Determinableness (n.) Capability of being determined; determinability.
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