Usually means: White fur, winter, stoat coat.
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  1. ermine: Merriam-Webster
  2. ermine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ermine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ermine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ermine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ermine, ermine: Wordnik
  7. ermine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ermine: Wiktionary
  9. ermine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ermine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ermine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ermine, ermine: Dictionary.com
  13. ermine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ermine (band), Ermine (disambiguation), Ermine (heraldry), Ermine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ermine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ermine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ermine: Rhymezone
  18. Ermine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ermine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ermine: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ermine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ermine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. ermine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ermine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ermine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ermine, ermine: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See ermines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.
noun:  The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.
noun:  (by extension, figuratively) The office of a judge.
noun:  (heraldry) The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.
noun:  Any of various moths, especially in the family Yponomeutidae
adjective:  (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).
verb:  (transitive) To clothe with ermine.

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