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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.