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Webster 1913 Edition
Fitch
1.
(Bot.)
A vetch.
[Obs.]
2.
pl.
(Bot.)
A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of
Nigella sativa
, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt. Fitch
,Noun.
[Contr. of fitched.]
(Zool.)
The European polecat; also, its fur.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fitch
FITCH
,Noun.
Definition 2024
fitch
fitch
English
Noun
fitch (plural fitches)
- The European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- The skin of the polecat
Translations
European polecat — see European polecat
Etymology 2
See vetch.
Noun
fitch
- (obsolete) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads "spelt".