Obs. Also 6 laset, 7 lascitt. [a. G. lasset, lassitz, of Slavonic origin; cf. OSl. lasica, Czech lasice, laska, Russian ластка, F. lasquette.] Also lasset-mouse, -weasel, a fur-bearing animal; the ermine or miniver.
1591. G. Fletcher, Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.), 14. Their beasts of strange kinds are the losh … the gurnstale, the laset or minever.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 424. There is no difference between the Lascitt mouse and the Lascitt weesill.
1611. Cotgr., Rat de Lasse, the Lasset Mouse; a beast that beares the Furre which we call Mineuar.
