fitch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
    foulmart; Mustela putorius; polecat; foumart.

WordNet

Fitch noun
Etymology
See Vetch.
Wordforms
plural Fitches
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A vetch. Obs.
  2. pl. (Bot.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
Fitch noun
Etymology
Contr. of fitched.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The European polecat; also, its fur.

Webster 1913