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Preserved in a pickle.

erring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

Pickled or canned beef.

Preserved; pickled. [Obs.] Burton.

om that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted. Fresh breeze (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. -- Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. -- Fresh way (Naut.), increased spee…

s are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. [Obs.] Shak.

Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.] Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. Johnson.

Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser.

n Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott.