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HERRING
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English
English : habitational name from Herrington in County Durham, possibly so named from an unattested Old English personal name H̄ra(from Old Enlish h̄ra ‘servant’) + -ing- denoting association + denu ‘woodland’, ‘pasture’.English : Possibly a variant of Harrington or a hypercorrected form of Errington.
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English
English : probably a variant spelling of Herrington, Harrington or Errington.
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English, Scottish, Dutch, and German
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German : metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, Middle English hering, Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.German : habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.Dutch : from a personal name, a derivative of a Germanic compound name with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hering.
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English
English : habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, most probably in Lincolnshire or Leicestershire, named with Middle English shaw, Old English skeaga ‘copse’, as its second element.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German hærinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a herring or a metonymic occupational name for a fish seller. In some cases the Jewish surname is ornamental.English : variant spelling of Herring.
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Dutch
Dutch : from a pet form of any of various Germanic compound personal names with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.English : probably a variant of Herring.
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n.
A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
v.
Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
n.
The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
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A young herring (Clupea harengus).
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The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
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A young herring.
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A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
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An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.
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Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
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Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
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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.
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The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
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A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
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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.
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One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
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Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
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A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
n. sing. & pl.
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 important species.
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A young or small herring.
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A young herring.