A beast, the lusetan or ounce?

[Wilson Gray]

According to "The Book of Knowledge - the children's encylopedia,"
ca.1943, an "ounce" is a snow leopard. I.e., there's a photo of some
kind of leopard-looking big cat on a snowbank and the caption reads:
"An ounce or snow leopard."

-Wilson

On 7/15/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 7/14/2006 04:57 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >Serves me right for not checking OED's "ounce, n.2". Thanks to
> >Charles, Jim, and Joel for the simultaneous corrections. (Everyone's
> >on top of their game as usual around here!)
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> Having grown up, read, and lived in the Northeast, I've actually
> heard--or perhaps just read!--"ounce" meaning "bobcat"--er, "lynx".
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> Joel
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