See also:

• GLUTTON, or WOLVERINE (Gulo luscus)

GLUTTON, or See also:

• WOLVERINE

WOLVERINE (Gulo luscus)  , a carnivorous mammal belonging to the Mustelidae, or See also:

• WEASEL (Putorius nivalis)

weasel See also:

• FAMILY

family, and the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole representative of its genus . The legs are See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and stout, with large feet, the toes of which terminate in strong, See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp claws considerably curved . The mode of progression is semi-plantigrade . In See also:

• SIZE

size and See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the See also:

• GLUTTON, or WOLVERINE (Gulo luscus)

glutton is something like the See also:

• BADGER

badger, measuring from 2 to 3 ft. in length, exclusive of the thick bushy tail, which is about 8 in. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long . The See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head is broad, the eyes are small and the back arched . The See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur consists of an under-growth of short woolly See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair, mixed with long straight hairs, to the abundance and length of which on the sides and tail the creature owes its shaggy See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance . The See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of the fur is blackish-See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown, with a broad See also:

• BAND

band of See also:

• CHESTNUT (nux Castanea)

chestnut stretching from the shoulders along each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• BODY

body, the two See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting near the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root of the tail . Unlike the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of See also:

• ARCTIC (Gr. "ApKroc, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major)

arctic animals, the fur of the glutton in See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter grows darker . Like other Mustelidae, the glutton is provided with anal glands, which secrete a yellowish fluid possessing a highly foetid odour . It is a boreal See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal, inhabiting the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern regions of both hemispheres, but most abundant in the circumpolar See also:

• AREA

area of the New See also:

• WORLD

World, where it occurs throughout the See also:

• BRITISH

British provinces and See also:

• ALASKA

Alaska, being specially numerous in the neighbourhood of the See also:

• MACKENZIE
• MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (1822-1892)
• MACKENZIE, HENRY (1745-1831)
• MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER (c. 1755-1820)
• MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1847— )
• MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE (1636-1691)
• MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (1837-1892)
• MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (1795-1861)

Mackenzie See also:

• RIVER

river, and extending southwards as far as New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York and the Rocky Mountains . The See also:

• WOLVERINE

wolverine is a voracious animal, and also one with an inquisitive disposition . It feeds on See also:

• GROUSE

grouse, the smaller rodents and foxes, which it digs from their burrows during the breeding-See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season; but want of activity renders it dependent for most of its See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food on dead carcases, which it frequently obtains by methods that have made it peculiarly See also:

• OBNOXIOUS (Lat. obnoxiosus, from ob, over, against, and noxa, harm)

obnoxious to the See also:

• HUNTER, JOHN (1728-1793)
• HUNTER, ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO (r8o9-1887)
• HUNTER, SIR WILLIAM WILSON (1840-19oo)
• HUNTER, WILLIAM (1718–1783)
• HUNTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1844-1898)

hunter and trapper .

Should the hunter, after succeeding in killing his See also:

• GAME

game, leave the carcase insufficiently protected for more than a single See also:

• NIGHT

night, the glutton, whose fear of snares is. sufficient to prevent him from touching it during the first night, will, if possible, get at and devour what he See also:

• CANON

canon the second, hiding the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder beneath the See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow . It annoys the trapper by following up his lines of See also:

• MARTEN
• MARTEN, AMERICAN
• MARTEN, HENRY (1602-1680)
• MARTEN, JAPANESE
• MARTEN, STONE

marten-traps, often extending to a length of 40 to 50 m., each of which it enters from behind, extracting the bait, pulling up the traps, and devouring or concealing the entrapped See also:

• MARTENS
• MARTENS, GEORG FRIEDRICH VON (1756-1821)

martens . So persistent is the glutton in this practice, when once it discovers a See also:

• LINE

line of traps, that its extermination along the trapper's route is a necessary preliminary to the success of his business . This is no easy task, as the glutton is too cunning to be caught by the methods success-fully employed on the other members of the weasel family . The See also:

• TRAP (0. Eng. treppe or traepee, properly a step, as that or which an animal places its foot and is caught, cf. Ger. Treppe flight of stairs)

trap generally used for this purpose is made to resemble a cache, or hidden See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store of food, such as the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and hunters are in the See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of forming, the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery and rifling of which is one of the glutton's most congenial occupations—the bait, instead of being paraded as in most traps, being carefully concealed, to See also:

• LULL (or LvLLY), RAIMON, or RAYMOND (c. 1235-1315)

lull the knowing beast's suspicions . One of the most prominent characteristics of the wolverine is its propensity to steal and hide things, not merely food which it might after-wards need, or traps which it regards as enemies, but articles which cannot possibly have any See also:

• INTEREST

interest except that of curiosity . The following instance of this is quoted by Dr E . See also:

• COUES, ELLIOTT (1842—1899)

Coues in his See also:

• WORK

work on the Fur-bearing Animals of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America: " A hunter and his family having See also:

• LEFT

left their See also:

• LODGE
• LODGE, EDMUND (1756-1839)
• LODGE, H
• LODGE, HENRY CABOT (1850– )
• LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851– )
• LODGE, THOMAS (c. 1558–1625)

lodge unguarded during The Glutton, or Wolverine (Gulo luscus) . their See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence, on their return found it completely gutted—the walls were there, but nothing else . Blankets, guns, kettles, axes, cans, knives and all the other See also:

• PARAPHERNALIA (Lat. paraphernalia, sc. bona, from Gr. aapaq5epva; impel, beside, and (*vii, dower)

paraphernalia of a trapper's See also:

• TENT

tent had vanished, and the tracks left by the beast showed who had been the thief . The family set to work, and, by carefully following up all his paths, recovered, with some trifling"exceptions, the whole of the lost See also:

• PROPERTY

property." The cunning displayed by the glutton in unravelling the snares set for it forms at once the admiration and despair of every trapper, while its See also:

• GREAT

great strength and ferocity render it a dangerous antagonist to animals larger than itself, occasionally including See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . The rutting-season occurs in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March, and the See also:

• FEMALE

female, secure in her burrow, produces her See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young—four or five at a See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth—in See also:

• JUNE

June or See also:

• JULY

July .

In See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of these. she is exceedingly bold, and the Indians, according to Dr Coues, " have been heard to say that they would sooner encounter a she-See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear with her cubs than a carcajou (the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian name of the glutton) under the same circumstances." On catching sight of its enemy, man, the wolverine before finally determining on See also:

• FLIGHT

flight, is said to sit on its haunches, and, in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to get a clearer view of the danger, shade its eyes with one of its fore-paws . When pressed for food it becomes fearless, and has been known to come on See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board an See also:

• ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice-See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, and in presence of the See also:

• CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
• CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)

crew seize a can of See also:

• MEAT

meat . The glutton is valuable for its fur, which, when several skins are sewn together, forms elegant See also:

• HEARTH (a word which appears in various forms in several Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch haard, German Herd, in the sense of " floor ")

hearth and See also:

• CARRIAGE

carriage rugs . (R .