mackerel-sky

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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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mackerel

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

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mackerel

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

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• Sky

  ·noun Hence, a shadow. II. Sky ·noun The wheather; the climate. III. Sky ·noun A <<Cloud>>. IV. S...

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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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• bastard-mackerel

  , or horse-mackerel The Caranx trachurus, a dry, coarse, and unwholesome fish, of the family Scomb...

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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-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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• Sky pilot

  ·add. ·- A person licensed as a pilot. ...

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• Sky-blue

  ·adj Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. ...

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• Sky-high

  ·adv & ·adj Very high. ...

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• sky blue

  Gin. ...

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• sky farmers

  Cheats who pretend they were farmers in the isle of Sky, or some other remote place, and were ruined...

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• sky parlour

  The garret, or upper story. ...

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• sky-racket

  The vulgar pronunciation of sky-rocket. ...

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• day-sky

  The aspect of the sky at day-break, or at twilight. ...

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• livid sky

  That blackish red and blue which pervade the sky, previous to an easterly gale, at sea: "Deep midn...

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• sky-gazer

  The ugly hare-lipped Uranoscopus, whose eyes are on the crown of its head; the Italians call him pes...

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• sky-larking

  In olden times meant mounting to the mast-heads, and sliding down the royal-stays or backstays for a...

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• sky-scraper

  A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a ...

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• water-sky

  In Arctic seas, a dark and dull leaden appearance of the atmosphere, the reflected blue of the sea i...

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• to sky a copper

  To toss up a cent. Didge said he was like skying a copper--head or tail.--Crockett, Tour. ...

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• lamb's-wool sky

  A collection of white orbicular masses of cloud. ...

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• scum-o'-the-sky

  Thin atmospheric vapours. ...

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