To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.
To hunt game with ferrets.
A diligent searcher.
An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes.
To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.
To become visible again by turning off a cloaking device.
To remove one's cloak.