1. ermine - Noun
2. ermine - Adjective
3. ermine - Verb
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.
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.
By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain.
One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)
To clothe with, or as with, ermine.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWoman's honor is nice as ermine it will not bear a soil. John Dryden
The mouth brought the wolf into the trap, the tongue the ermine to the snare. Finnish Proverb
According to popular traditions, Anne of Brittany was hunting with her court when she saw a white ermine who preferred to die than to cross a dirty marsh. Source: Internet
Edition, Cambridge, 1771,pp.46–50 Also blazoned in Lambeth MS 555 "The Arms given him in Anglia Sacra, p. 673, are not sufficiently explicit; they should be thus blasoned: Quarterly gules and ermine on the 1st and 4th a goat's head erased argent. Source: Internet
For State occasions when the monarch is present, the Lord Mayor wears a crimson velvet robe of state trimmed with an ermine cape and facings, very similar to a royal earl's coronation robe. Source: Internet
Reports of queuing traffic due to accident on A428 between B1040 St Ives Road (Eltisley) and A1198 Ermine Street South (Caxton Gibbet). Source: Internet