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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.

Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine. Pope.

See Note under Ermine, n., 4.

hich another sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate. [God] hath determined the times before appointed. Acts xvii. 26.

Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.

In a determined manner; with determination.

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

To exterminate; to destroy. [Obs.] Shak.

To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

Undetermined.

To intersect or penetrate with mines. [Obs.] Drayton.

An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.

To determine (something) beforehand. Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.

To terminate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison.

One who undermines.

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.