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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.

him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

.] Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat.

The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.

A barrel or cask, as of fish. "A cade of herrings." Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. Jacob, Law Dict.

o cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [Obs.] For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger.

to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all pious affection. Bp. Sprat.

e. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.

Crepuscular. [Obs.] Sprat.

lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat.

To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. Sprat. To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]

faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat.

, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.] An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.

To cause to explode. Sprat.

Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat.

l men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians. Sprat.

an not be annulled; indestructible. [R.] They are endued with indelible power from above. Sprat. Indelible colors, fast colors which do not fade or tarnish by exposure. -- Indelible ink, an ink obliterated by washing; esp., a solution of silver nitrate.

f all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being agreeable to the will of God. Sprat.

ent. More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before. Sprat.