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A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

icate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curca…

To drench or souse with water. "Let the maids bewash the men." Herrick.

The large white-heart cherry.

osa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

ng of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." Milton.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]

An American river herring (Clupea æstivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

, two pieces of bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb. -- Branch herring. See Alewife. -- Root and branch , totally, wholly.

The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.

Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.

son. Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss. Herrick.