See right whale.
·noun Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of whic...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The Hebrew word tan (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., "sea-monster"). It ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A general term for various marine animals of the order Cetacea, including the most colossal of all a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
As to the signification of the Hebrew terms tan and tannin, variously rendered in the Authorized Ver...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
The puffinet; called scraber in the Hebrides; about the size of a pigeon. ...
·- The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone...
·- A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper ja...
The name by which the right whale of the south seas (Balæna australis) is often known to whalemen. ...
See finner. ...
The largest whale which visits the Hebrides. ...
A name applied to the whale with a very large head and no dorsal fin, which yields the whalebone and...
See rorqual ...
Otherwise known as the cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus. A large cetacean, belonging to the divisi...
A beautiful little bird seen hovering in flocks over the Southern Ocean, in search of the small crus...
A boat varying from 26 to 56 feet in length, and from 4 to 10 feet beam, sharp at both ends, and adm...
The young whale. ...
The places at which the capture of whales, or "whale-fishery," is carried on. The principal are the ...
See bottle-nose ...
A species of whalebone whale, the Megaptera longimana, which attains to 45 or 50 feet in length, and...
A long, open, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan. ...