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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.

sed by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv. Dr. W. Smith.

oxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.

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…

e Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

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.

ed in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. Where angels first should practice hymns, and string Their tuneful harps. Dryden. Hymn book, a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal.

A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker.

Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invokingevil; as, the imprecatory psalms.