224 SWINE— WEASEL 



SWINE (see also Pio, Sow).— Ealt-niluic (herd) ; Feis ; Lulpat, 

 lupait; Mucraidh (herd), mucaii. 

 Shot (young — Teviotd.). 

 Teut. Swina, plural of su, sui. 



TERRIER (see Doo). 

 TIGER.— Tigear, tiogair. 



Said to be of Persian origin, from a word signifying an arrow, 

 from its swiftness. 



UNICORN (see also Monster). — Aon-adharcach, aon- 

 bheannach ; Beisd or biasd-na-scrogaig (Skye), buabhall or 

 buabhull. 



This beast of the towering horn was said to be peculiar to 

 Skye under the name "Biasd na sgrogaig," and indeed to the 

 Outer Hebrides generally, having, as it is generally portrayed, 

 one horn on forehead, and dwelling in certain sea lochs (some 

 accounts add long legs, clumsy and inelegant, tall and awkward). 

 Now it is shrewdly surmised to be a narwhal strayed from the 

 Arctic seas, and which is called in some places the " unicorn of 

 the sea," having the horn shown in that animal. 



The unicorn is the right hand supporter of the MacGregor 

 arms. See also Isaiah xxxix. 



VOLE (see Rat and Mouse). — Bad-alan (water) ; Famh-alan ; 

 Lamh-fhual. 



There is the water-vole (or rat), meadow or short-tailed vole, 

 and the red vole. 



WALRUS (see Seal). 



WATER-HORSE (see Horse and Monster).— Each-uisge ; 

 Waltron. 



WEASEL. — Bladnait, blatnait; Eas, easag, easog (fr.), easaic, 

 easan ; Ian, iar, iarag ; Labhallan, lamhalan ; Nas, neas, ness, nios. 



Beal (small) ; Cane (small) ; Doussing (Lat.) ; Fairy (Devon), 

 ferry, fozle, futcat (Banff), futrat ; Kane, keen, ken, kime, kine 

 (small); Lavallan, lavellan (Caith.); Marder, marten, marten-cat, 

 marter, martern, martre, martrick, martrik, mertrick, mertrik, 

 mouse-hound, mouse-weasel (Moray), mulere (Somerset), mustela ; 

 Puttice (Kent) ; Quhitred, quhittret ; Waesel, water-mole, wesle 

 (A. S.), weysyl, whesile, whezle (Loth.), whitneck (Cornw.), 

 whitrack, whitred, whitret, w^hitruck, whut-throat, wreasel 

 (North). 



The Teutonic type is "wisala," a diminutive, "the little thin 

 creature." 



Some of the above terms found as " other names " for the 

 weasel are not vouched as being properly so, but are given as 

 found in respectable authorities, 



