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siz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.

he founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

A young salmon. See Parr.

A salmon in its fourth year's growth. [Prov. Eng.]

To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

A salmon returning from the sea the second time. [Prov. Eng.]

The male of the salmon. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.

An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.

A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

above). -- Ground snake (Zoöl.), a small burrowing American snake (Celuta amoena). It is salmon colored, and has a blunt tail. -- Ground squirrel. (Zoöl.) (a) One of numerous species of burrowing rodents of the genera Tamias and Spermophilus, having cheek pouches. The former genus includes the Eastern striped squirre…

A salmon in its fifth year of growth. [Prov. Eng.]

A California salmon; the steelhead.

A young salmon; a parr.

A large salmon (Salmo, or Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America.

The huchen, a large salmon.

A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.

The dog salmon.