A beast, the lusetan or ounce?

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jul 14 20:11:18 UTC 2006


On 7/14/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> What word today is lusetan, as in "the beasts of the country are
> bears, lusetans or ounces [etc.]", from 1720?

OED gives "luseran" as a variant of "lucern", an archaic term for the lynx.


--Ben Zimmer

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