weezelt

An old spelling of weasel. weft1 (weft), n. [ The weft was so called from its being "wafted" in and out of the warp; it is also often called the woof, though more correctly the woof is the same as the web or finished stuff. Encyc. Brit ., XXIIL. 206. 2. In bot., a name sometimes given to a feltlike stratum produced in certain fungi by abundant closely interwoven hyphæ. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 161. The Thunder, which went to Bermuda the 17th October, now returned, bringing corn and goats from Virginia, (for the weavils had taken the corn at Bermuda before they came there). Winthrop , Hist. New England, I. 159. 2. Any insect which damages stored grain, as the fly-weevil, a local name in the southern United States for the grain-moth, Gelechia cereal ell a . See grain - moth , 2.-3. The larva of the wheat-midge, Diplosis tritici . Also called red weevil. C. V. Riley. [Western U. S.] The peripheral portion of the delicate hyphal weft . De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 217. Apple-blo om weevil, Anthonomus pomorum , which attacks the flower-buds of the apple in Europe.-Apple weft2t. An obsolete form of the preterit and the fruit of the apple in the United States. Commonly weevil, Anthonomus quadrigibbus , a weevil which infests past participle of wavel . called apple - curculio . See apple - curculio , and cut under Anthonomus.- Cabbage-weevil, Ceuthorhynchus nap i, whose larvæ bore the crown of young cabbages in Europe, weft3t, n. Same as waif . Ne can thy irrevocable desteny bee wefte. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 36. and which is supposed to have been introduced recently weft4 (weft), n. A dialectal form of waft, 3. into the United States. -Chestnut-weevil, Bal an in us caryatripes, a very long-nosed weevil whose larva is the weevil. (a) See clover - weevil (with cut). (b) Phytonomus punctatus, whose larvæ feed on the leaves of clover in Europe and the United States. (c) Sitones crinitus and S. flavescens, which feed upon the leaves of clover in Europe, their larvæ boring in the roots. The latter has been introduced into the United States. Cranberry-weevil, An thonomus sutural is. - Grape-weevil. ( a ) Crap on i us in æqualis, which attacks the fruit of the grape in the United States. (b) Otiorhynchus sulcatus and O. picipes, which (c) Rhynchites betuleti, a formidable grape-pest in Europe, feed upon the leaves and shoots of the grape in Europe. which rolls the leaves of the vine. - Hazelnut-weevil, Bal an in us nucum. - Hickory-nut weevil, Bal an in us nasicus, whose larva is found commonly in hickory-nuts in the United States. - Imbricated weevil, Epicærus im bricatus, of the United States. See Epicarus (with cut).— common chestnut-grub of the United States. - Clover Ironwood leaf-weevil, an undetermined weevil which mines the leaves of ironwood in the United States. - Leaf-rolling weevil, any weevil whose larva lives in a leaf-roll, as At tel a bus bipunctulatus of the United States, whose larva rolls the leaves of oak. - New York weevil, Ithycerus noveboracensis, the adult of which gnaws the twigs of fruit trees in the United States, while its larva devours the interior of oak and hickory twigs.- Oak-bark weevil, Magdalis olyra, which lives under the bark of oak in the United States. - Palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum, R. ferrugineus, and allied species, which bore into the trunk of palm trees. See palm - worm, under worm. - Pear-shaped weevil, any weevil of the genus Apion, as A. apr i cans, an enemy to clover in England. See cuts under clover-weevil and seed - wee C New York Weevil ( Ithycerus noveboracensis). The strongest sort of smells are best in a weft afar off. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 833.