foumart

The foumart is the special abhorrence of the game-keeper; it does more damage amongst game and poultry than any of the other _Mustelidae_, and consequently greater pains are taken to trap and shoot it, in fact, so much so that I wonder that the animal is not now extinct in the British Isles.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

In my county, as well as in many parts of England, the popular name is "foumart," which is said to be derived from "foul marten."

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

To those corries of my native place will be coming in the yellow moon of brock and foumart -- the beasts that dote on the autumn eves -- the People of Quietness; have I not seen their lanthoms and heard their laughter in the night?

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

As they threaded the thicket of hazel, at some distance from the pool, one of the salmon-fishers declared, that from a plot of white-thorn and bramble-bushes he had seen the eyes of a foumart or polecat glare out upon him; and in a low voice, directing the attention of a comrade to the spot, they both imagined they could detect the figure of a man crouching among the trailing shrubs.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

Now moreover Walter looked, and deemed that he beheld something through the grass and bracken on the other side of those two, an ugly brown and yellow body, which, if it were not some beast of the foumart kind, must needs be the monstrous dwarf, or one of his kin; and the flesh crept upon

Wood Beyond the World William Morris 1865

A foumart was caught in the back kitchen; you may perhaps know it better by the name of polecat.

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

Measter, too -- I could a-bear a good deal, but measter cuts through the stable-yard, and past me, wi'out a word, as if I was poison, or a stinking foumart.

A Dark Night's Work Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

In niches all around the sidewalls were couches covered with hare, rabbit, foumart, and fox's skins -- furnished by these animals slain by us in the woods and among the rocks of that sylvan and moorland parish -- the regal Torus alone being spread with the dun-deer's hide from

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

"I'm well off the ridge," he muttered; "they could have marked me down like a foumart as I ran.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887