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A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.

An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.

Uniform. [Obs.] Herrick.

Not rude; polished. Herrick.

Revelry; confusion; frolic. [Obs.] Herrick.

o vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.

The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

-- White wine. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. "White wine of Lepe." Chaucer. -- White witch, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and bene…

A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.

The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.

Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off by whitflaws." Herrick.

m wind. Chaucer. Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. Herrick. Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. Addison.

rchant who deals in wines. -- Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; -- also Sydenham's laudanum. -- Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice. -- Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in va…

n autumn, while the leaves are falling. -- Winter bud (Zoöl.), a statoblast. -- Winter cherry (Bot.), a plant (Physalis Alkekengi) of the Nightshade family, which has, a red berry inclosed in the inflated and persistent calyx. See Alkekengi. -- Winter cough (Med.), a form of chronic bronchitis marked by a cough recu…

Sherry. See Sherry.

A zonule. Herrick.