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e tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree. Eng. Cyc.

(Bot.) A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

A fat herring with undeveloped roe. [Written also matty.] [Eng. & Scot.]

e, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.

A hand basket. [Obs.] Herrick.

A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.

A kind of small black cherry.

Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings. [Prov. Eng.]

An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.

A kind of wild red cherry.

ving an ammoniacal, fishy odor. It is produced artificially, and also occurs naturally in herring brine and other fishy products. It is regarded as ammonia in which a third of its hydrogen is replaced by methyl, and is a type of the class of substituted ammonias. -- Methyl ether (Chem.), a light, volatile ether CH3.O.…

To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

n, was reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.

A kind of cherry. See Morello. Great morel, the deadly nightshade. -- Petty morel, the black nightshade. See Nightshade.

A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation. Brieger.