"Marten" is a word in ENGLISH
Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of the genus
Mustela, closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species
are the European beech, or stone, marten (Mustela foina); the pine
marten (M. martes); and the American marten, or sable (M. Americana),
which some zoologists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.
A bird. See Martin.
The fur of the marten, used for hats, muffs, etc.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty …
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