Word Meanings - HERRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Combless
  Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.
• Compromit
  To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
• Commercing
  of Commerce
• Northwestwardly
  Toward the northwest.
• Comose
  Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.
• Springe
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.
• Complaint
  Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
• SPREADEAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]
• Comedown
  A downfall; an humiliation.
• Compulsorily
  In a compulsory manner; by force or constraint.
• Commiserated
  of Commiserate
• Roundish
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
• Companator
  Same as Impanator.
• Sprinting
  of Sprint
• Completion
  The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
• Cometic
  Relating to a comet.
• Computer
  One who computes.
• Commissionate
  To commission
• Saltarella
  See Saltarello.
• Compared
  of Compare

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