Sc. A kind of weasel (Jam.).
1684. Sibbald, Scot. Illustr., II. III. 11. Lavellan, Animal in Cathanesia frequens.
1771. Pennant, Tour Scotl. in 1769 (1774), 175. I enquired here after the Lavellan, which, from description, I suspect to be the Water Shrew Mouse.
