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Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less impo…

Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring. Shak.

A young or small herring. [Eng.] Pennant.

A young herring. [Eng.]

ays. In the wood of the oak they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple, pine, cherry, etc. -- Silver grebe (Zoöl.), the red-throated diver. See Illust. under Diver. -- Silver hake (Zoöl.), the American whiting. -- Silver leaf, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very thin. -- Silver lunge (Zoöl.), the…

A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. [Eng.] Herrick.

which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

A young herring. [Local, U.S.]

A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. -- Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. -- Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. -- Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucke…

Anything very large, forcible; or astonishing. [Obs. or Colloq.] Herrick.

A young herring (Clupea harengus). [Also written sile.] But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And when they're grown, why then we call them herring. J. Ingelow.

The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.

iness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.

The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.

To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.

together. [Obs.] Shak. -- Thread cell (Zoöl.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso. -- Thread herring (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. See under Gizzard. -- Thread lace, lace made of linen thread. -- Thread needle, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, r…

Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." Herrick.