A beast, the lusetan or ounce?

Fri Jul 14 20:25:11 UTC 2006

Thanks, Ben, that must be it.  (I tried varying the vowels, but
didn't dare to wild-card the consonants!)

Joel

At 7/14/2006 04:11 PM, you wrote:
>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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