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The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England. A small translucent fish abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as

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The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England. A small translucent fish abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• HERR
  A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• HERRINGBONE
  Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework,
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• JAPANNED
  Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• TRICHINA
  A small, slender nematoid worm which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ECHINATE; ECHINATED
  Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.