Sentence:  [Friday 7.] I ſhot three brace of grouſe, and found a <WSD>mink</WSD> in one of the traps which I tailed yesterday. [Saturday 8.] The ſame trap caught another <WSD>mink</WSD> to-day. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  ("plural" '''mink''' or '''minks''') Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink ("Neovison vison") and the European mink ("Mustela lutreola").