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See Menhaden.

An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

me of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). -- Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. -- Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. --…

To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

Overshadowing. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

One of the three judges of the internal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

Shade; shadow. [Obs.]

s the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species. [Written also chad.]

See Shadbird (a)

A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

r Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.

Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.

obs. imp. of Shed. Chaucer.

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. The shades of night were falling fast. Longfellow.

Full of shade; shady.