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A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs. Wright.

A barrel or cask, as of fish. "A cade of herrings." Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. Jacob, Law Dict.

Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

Of a cherry color.

Cherry-colored; a light bright red; --- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.

To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion. Herrick.

The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.

Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

A young herring. B. Jonson.

A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish (Blepharis crinitus) of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.

nsverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

To infold; to embrace. [Obs.] Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick.

duals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. [Scot.] H. Miller.

Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial. Do ye prove What crucifixions are in love Herrick.

or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. -- Currant borer (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a s…

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