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The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

A genus of whales.

The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue. Ure.

artilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes. -- Fin whale (Zoöl.), a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoöl.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals. -- Unpaired, or Median, fins (Zoöl.), the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.…

Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

A finback whale.

A finback whale.

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. the flensed carcass of a fur seal. U. S. Census (1880).

le; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.

A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.

One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

The violent spasms of a dying whale.

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.

A herd, or school, of whales.

One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]

ea lawyer. See Snapper. -- Gray snipe (Zoöl.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. -- Gray whale (Zoöl.), a rather large and swift California whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.

The California gray whale.