Otter
in zoölogy, the genus Lutra and especially L. vulgaris, the common otter. The animals vary greatly in size; but the total length averages about 40 inches, of which the tail constitutes rather more than a third. The fur is of a soft, brown color, lighter on throat and breast, and consists of long, coarse, shining hairs, with a short under fur of fine texture. The otter lives exclusively OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY on fish, and is therefore rarely met with far from water. The female produces from three to five at a birth, usually in March or April, and brings them up in a nest formed of grass, and usually in a hollow in a river bank or in the shelter of the roots of some overhanging tree.
OTTER In angling, an instrument for fishing, so called from its destructive nature. It is a float, from which lines run out with bait or flies, and which is either moored or trailed parallel to a boat. Called also a trot line. In entomology, the larva of the ghost moth.