"Britt" is a word in ENGLISH
The young of the common herring; also, a small species of
herring; the sprat.
The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which
the right whales feed.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name …
Read the complete definitionA small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the …
Read the complete definitionbalíla n wolf herring: Chirocentrus dorab.
Read the complete definitionTo indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
Read the complete definitionA person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice …
Read the complete definitionbalunábid n k. o. dwarf herring: Dussumieri sp.
Read the complete definitionbidbid n {1} k. o. small sprat or herring. {2} net used to catch the bidbid. paN- v [A2; b6] …
Read the complete definitionTo dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.
Read the complete definitionThe common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
Read the complete definitionTo cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
Read the complete definitionAn American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
Read the complete definitionA small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
Read the complete definitionA leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.
Read the complete definitionFour; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
Read the complete definitionThe Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the Herring family.
Read the complete definitionA young herring.
Read the complete definitionA measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
Read the complete definitionAn order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the …
Read the complete definitionA substitute; a person duly authorized by an oflicer to exercise some or all of the functions pertaining to the …
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