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Answer for the clue "Weasel's cousin ", 4 letters:
mink

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Word definitions for mink in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "skin or fur of the mink," from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish menk "a stinking animal in Finland"). Applied in English to the animal itself from 1620s.

Usage examples of mink.

Herbert Minks was a fine audience, attentive, delicately responsive, sympathetic, understanding, and above all--silent.

On the journey back from the City to the suburb where he lived, Minks made a sonnet on it.

With Herbert Minks at his side he might accomplish many things his heart was set upon.

And while Minks bumped down in his third-class crowded carriage to Sydenham, hunting his evasive sonnet, Henry Rogers glided swiftly in a taxi-cab to his rooms in St.

Soon afterwards the little Sydenham villa was barred and shuttered, the four children were sound asleep, Herbert and Albinia Minks both lost in the world of happy dreams that sometimes visit honest, simple folk whose consciences are clean and whose aims in life are commonplace but worthy.

Then he smiled again as he remembered Frank, the little boy whose schooling he was paying for, and realised that Minks would bring a message of gratitude from Mrs.

Au fond he had a genuine admiration for Minks, and there was something lofty in the queer personality that he both envied and respected.

For Minks hung upon the fringe of that very modern, new-fashioned, but almost freakish army that worships old, old ideals, yet insists upon new-fangled names for them.

To watch him, you would never have dreamed that Herbert Minks had ever contemplated City life, much less known ten years of drudgery in its least poetic stages.

A faint smile, that held the merest ghost of merriment, passed across the face of Minks, leaping, unobserved by his chief, from one eye to the other.

Whereupon, having done this last commission, and written it down upon a sheet of paper which he placed with care against the clock, beside the unopened letter, the session closed, and Minks, in his mourning hat and lavender gloves, walked up St.

Rogers followed him on his way to the club, and just when Minks was reflecting with pride of the well-turned phrases he had dictated to his wife for her letter of thanks, it passed across the mind of its recipient that he had forgotten to read it altogether.

He was glad the stranger was not Minks or one of his fellow directors.

Herbert Minks would have chosen for one of his poems, to describe a state of mind he, however, had never experienced himself.

And he rather astonished the imperturbable Minks next day by the announcement that he was thinking of going abroad for a little holiday.