Bream

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. ·see Sea Bream.

II. Bream ·vt To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, ·etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

III. Bream ·noun A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

IV. Bream ·noun An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. ·see Pondfish.

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