bastard-mackerel

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• Bastard

  ·vt To <<Bastardize>>. II. Bastard ·noun A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. III. Bastar...

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• Bastard

  In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word mamzer', which means "polluted." In Deut. 23:2...

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• bastard

  The child of an unmarried woman. ...

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• bastard

  A term applied to all pieces of ordnance which are of unusual or irregular proportions: the governme...

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• Bastard

  Among those who were excluded from entering the congregation, even to the tenth generation, was the ...

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• Mackerel

  ·noun A pimp; also, a bawd. II. Mackerel ·noun Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several rel...

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• mackerel

  A bawd: from the French maquerel. Mackerel- backed; long-backed. ...

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• mackerel

  n. In Australia, Scomberantarcticus, Castln., said to be identical with Scomberpneumatophorus, De l...

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• mackerel

  The Scomber vulgaris, a well-known sea-fish. ...

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• bastard dory

  and John Dory (q.v.), spelt also Dorey n. an Australian fish, Cyttus australis,family Cyttidae; t...

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• bastard trumpeter

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• bastard-pitch

  A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...

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• horse-mackerel

  n. The name is applied inSydney to the fish Auxis ramsayi, Castln., family Scombridae. In New Zeala...

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• horse-mackerel

  A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...

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• mackerel-boat

  A stout clinch-worked vessel, with a large fore-sail, sprit-sail, and mizen. ...

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• mackerel-sky

  See cirro-cumulus. ...

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• mackerel-sture

  A northern name for the tunny, Scomber thynnus. ...

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• spanish mackerel

  An old Cornish name for the tunny, or a scomber, larger than the horse-mackerel. ...

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• stoer-mackerel

  A name for the young tunny-fish. ...

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