Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fitch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fitch \Fitch\ (?; 224), n.; pl. {Fitches}. [See {Vetch}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fitch \Fitch\, n. [Contr. of fitched.] (Zo["o]l.)
The European polecat; also, its fur.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fitch
n : dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off
an unpleasant odor when threatened [syn: {polecat}, {foulmart},
{foumart}, {Mustela putorius}]
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