a. [f. FERRET sb.1 + -Y1.] Resembling a ferret or a ferret’s.

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1801.  Med. Jrnl., V. 15. Indicated by a flushed countenance, ferrety eye.

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1876.  J. Weiss, Wit, Hum. & Shaks., ii. 54. There is nothing more feretty than your cynic, to whom all objects are game for observation.

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1877.  Black, Green Past., xi. (1878), 86. The man dried his face, turned, and looked at Balfour with a pair of keen and ferrety eyes, said nothing, and walked off into the kitchen.

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1883.  G. H. Boughton, Artist Strolls in Holland, in Harper’s Mag., LXVI., March, 528/1. Jacob translated for the ferrety old dame.

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