FERRET, a sort of rat, with a long snout, and thick tail. It has but four teeth. It bites horses, and its biting is mortal. Moses declares it to be unclean. Levit. xi. 30. The Greek word Mygale is compounded of mus, a rat, and gale, a weasel, because this animal has something of both. The Hebrew Levit. xi. 30. אנכה Anaca, μυγαλή.word Anaca, which answers to it, is by some translated, hedge-hog, by others, leech, or salamander. Bochart thinks it signifies a lizard.
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