| slovo | definícia |
Omber
(gcide) | Omber \Om"ber\, Ombre \Om"bre\, n. [F. hombre, fr. Sp. hombre,
lit., a man, fr. L. homo. See Human.]
A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually
played by three persons. --Pope.
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When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free,
And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
--Young.
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scomber japonicus
(mass) | Scomber japonicus
- makrela |
beachcomber
(encz) | beachcomber,paběrkovač n: Zdeněk Brožbeachcomber,plážový tulák Zdeněk Brož |
blomberg
(encz) | Blomberg,Blomberg n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
bomber
(encz) | bomber,bombarďák n: Zdeněk Brožbomber,bombardér n: Zdeněk Brožbomber,bombometčík n: Zdeněk Brožbomber,bombový atentátník n: Petr Prášek |
bombers
(encz) | bombers,bombardéry n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
comber
(encz) | comber,česač n: Zdeněk Brož |
dive bomber
(encz) | dive bomber, n: |
fighter-bomber
(encz) | fighter-bomber,stíhací bombardovací letadlo n: [voj.] Petr Prášek |
romberg
(encz) | Romberg, |
somber
(encz) | somber,chmurný adj: Martin M.somber,melancholický adj: Martin M.somber,pochmurný adj: Martin M.somber,ponurý adj: Martin M.somber,temný adj: Martin M.somber,tmavý adj: Martin M.somber,zádumčivý adj: Martin M.somber,zasmušilý adj: Martin M. |
somberly
(encz) | somberly, |
somberness
(encz) | somberness, |
stealth bomber
(encz) | stealth bomber, n: |
stromberg
(encz) | Stromberg,Stromberg n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
suicide bomber
(encz) | suicide bomber, n: |
unencombered
(encz) | unencombered,nezadlužený [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
blomberg
(czen) | Blomberg,Blombergn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
stromberg
(czen) | Stromberg,Strombergn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
beach comber
(gcide) | beachcomber \beachcomber\ [Written also beach-comber or {beach
comber}.] (Naut.)
1. A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters
about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of
the Pacific Ocean.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a
Scotchman who was a beach-comber. --F. T.
Bullen.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a vagrant living on a beach.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a person who searches along a beach for objects of value,
such as lost objects or seashells.
[PJC]Beach comber \Beach" comb`er\
A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
[Amer., archaic]
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Beach comber
(gcide) | beachcomber \beachcomber\ [Written also beach-comber or {beach
comber}.] (Naut.)
1. A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters
about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of
the Pacific Ocean.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a
Scotchman who was a beach-comber. --F. T.
Bullen.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a vagrant living on a beach.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a person who searches along a beach for objects of value,
such as lost objects or seashells.
[PJC]Beach comber \Beach" comb`er\
A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
[Amer., archaic]
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beach-comber
(gcide) | beachcomber \beachcomber\ [Written also beach-comber or {beach
comber}.] (Naut.)
1. A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters
about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of
the Pacific Ocean.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a
Scotchman who was a beach-comber. --F. T.
Bullen.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a vagrant living on a beach.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a person who searches along a beach for objects of value,
such as lost objects or seashells.
[PJC] |
beachcomber
(gcide) | beachcomber \beachcomber\ [Written also beach-comber or {beach
comber}.] (Naut.)
1. A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters
about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of
the Pacific Ocean.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather with a
Scotchman who was a beach-comber. --F. T.
Bullen.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a vagrant living on a beach.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a person who searches along a beach for objects of value,
such as lost objects or seashells.
[PJC] |
bomber
(gcide) | bomber \bomber\ n.
1. a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split
lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato
and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are
used in different sections of the US.
Syn: grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban
sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine,
submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a person who drops bombs or plants and explodes bombs,
especially surreptitously.
[PJC]
4. a bomber jacket.
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Bomber jacket
(gcide) | Bomber jacket \Bom"ber jack`et\, n. [From its resemblance to the
style of jacket work by the crews of World War II bomber
airplanes.]
a short men's jacket made of leather, having a zipper in
front, knitted cuffs, and ribbed trim.
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Bullcomber
(gcide) | Bullcomber \Bull"comb*er\, n. (Zool.)
A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typh[ae]us vulgaris of Europe.
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Comber
(gcide) | Comber \Comb"er\, n.
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool,
flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
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2. A long, curling wave.
[1913 Webster]Comber \Com"ber\, v. t.
To cumber. [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]Comber \Com"ber\, n.
Encumbrance. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Comber \Com"ber\, n. (Zool.)
The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
[Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Cumber \Cum"ber\ (k?m"b?r), n. [Cf. encombre hindrance,
impediment. See Cuber,v.]
Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also
comber.]
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A place of much distraction and cumber. -- Sir H.
Wotton.
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Sage counsel in cumber. --Sir W.
Scott.
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comber
(gcide) | Comber \Comb"er\, n.
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool,
flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
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2. A long, curling wave.
[1913 Webster]Comber \Com"ber\, v. t.
To cumber. [Obs.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]Comber \Com"ber\, n.
Encumbrance. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Comber \Com"ber\, n. (Zool.)
The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
[Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Cumber \Cum"ber\ (k?m"b?r), n. [Cf. encombre hindrance,
impediment. See Cuber,v.]
Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also
comber.]
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A place of much distraction and cumber. -- Sir H.
Wotton.
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Sage counsel in cumber. --Sir W.
Scott.
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dull sober somber subfusc
(gcide) | Colorless \Col"or*less\, a.
1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent;
as, colorless water; a colorless gas.
Note: [Narrower terms: {ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale,
pallid, pasty, wan, waxen}; neutral; white] [Also
See: achromatic, colorless.]
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2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar
sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes,
prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style;
definitions should be colorless.
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3. having lost its normal color.
Note: [Narrower terms: {blanched, etiolate, etiolated,
whitened}; bleached, faded, washed-out, washy;
dimmed, dulled, grayed; dirty; {dull, sober,
somber, subfusc}] colored
Syn: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.
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Encomber
(gcide) | Encomber \En*com"ber\, v. t.
See Encumber. [Obs.]
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Encomberment
(gcide) | Encomberment \En*com"ber*ment\, n. [See Encumberment.]
Hindrance; molestation.[Obs.] --Spenser.
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Incomber
(gcide) | Incomber \In*com"ber\, v. t.
See Encumber.
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Labrus comber
(gcide) | Wrasse \Wrasse\, n. [W. gwrachen.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of
the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the
Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of
the species are bright-colored.
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Note: Among the European species are the ballan wrasse
(Labrus maculatus), the streaked wrasse ({Labrus
lineatus}), the red wrasse (Labrus mixtus), the
comber wrasse (Labrus comber), the blue-striped, or
cook, wrasse (see Peacock fish, under Peacock), the
rainbow wrasse (Labrus vulgaris), and the seawife.
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Scomber
(gcide) | Scomber \Scom"ber\, n. [L., a mackerel, Gr. sko`mbros.] (Zool.)
A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common
mackerel.
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Scomber colias
(gcide) | Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
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Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A
double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks.
--Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Lepidium
Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curlew (Zool.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zool.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zool.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zool.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia (and note at that
entry).
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zool.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
[1913 Webster]Chub \Chub\, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick
fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh.
F. chabot chub.] (Zool.)
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp
family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus;
the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes
of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius,
Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different
fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
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Chub mackerel (Zool.), a species of mackerel ({Scomber
colias}) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic
coast, but absent in others; -- called also {bull
mackerel}, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel.
Chub sucker (Zool.), a fresh-water fish of the United
States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.
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Scomber scombrus
(gcide) | Mackerel \Mack`er*el\, n. [OF. maquerel, F. maquereau (LL.
macarellus), prob. for maclereau, fr. L. macula a spot, in
allusion to the markings on the fish. See Mail armor.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Scomber of the family
Scombridae, and of several related genera. They are finely
formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are
highly prized for food.
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Note: The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus), which
inhabits both sides of the North Atlantic, is one of
the most important food fishes. It is mottled with
green and blue. The Spanish mackerel ({Scomberomorus
maculatus}), of the American coast, is covered with
bright yellow circular spots.
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Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel. (Zool.) See under Chub.
Frigate mackerel. See under Frigate.
Horse mackerel . See under Horse.
Mackerel bird (Zool.), the wryneck; -- so called because it
arrives in England at the time when mackerel are in
season.
Mackerel cock (Zool.), the Manx shearwater; -- so called
because it precedes the appearance of the mackerel on the
east coast of Ireland.
Mackerel guide. (Zool.) See Garfish
(a) .
Mackerel gull (Zool.) any one of several species of gull
which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the kittiwake.
Mackerel midge (Zool.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of
the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long
and has four barbels on the upper jaw. It is now
considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella.
Mackerel plow, an instrument for creasing the sides of lean
mackerel to improve their appearance. --Knight.
Mackerel shark (Zool.), the porbeagle.
Mackerel sky, or Mackerel-back sky, a sky flecked with
small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.
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Mackerel sky and mare's-tails
Make tall ships carry low sails. --Old Rhyme.
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Scomberesox saurus
(gcide) | Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack,
skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
[1913 Webster]Skipper \Skip"per\, n.
1. One who, or that which, skips.
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2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.
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3. (Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
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4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
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5. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies
of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their
peculiar short, jerking flight.
[1913 Webster]Billfish \Bill"fish`\ (b[i^]l"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.)
A name applied to several distinct fishes:
(a) The garfish (Tylosurus longirostris, or {Belone
longirostris}) and allied species.
(b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast
(Scomberesox saurus).
(c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species
related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
(d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
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Scomberoid
(gcide) | Scomberoid \Scom"ber*oid\, a. & n. [Cf. F. scomb['e]ro["i]de.]
(Zool.)
Same as Scombroid.
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Scomberomorus caballa
(gcide) | Cero \Ce"ro\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Sp. sierra saw, sawfish, cero.]
(Zool.)
A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the
genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West
Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United
States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called
also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero ({Scomberomorus
regalis}).
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Scomberomorus maculatus
(gcide) | Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
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Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A
double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks.
--Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Lepidium
Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curlew (Zool.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zool.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zool.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zool.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia (and note at that
entry).
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zool.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
[1913 Webster]Mackerel \Mack`er*el\, n. [OF. maquerel, F. maquereau (LL.
macarellus), prob. for maclereau, fr. L. macula a spot, in
allusion to the markings on the fish. See Mail armor.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Scomber of the family
Scombridae, and of several related genera. They are finely
formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are
highly prized for food.
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Note: The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus), which
inhabits both sides of the North Atlantic, is one of
the most important food fishes. It is mottled with
green and blue. The Spanish mackerel ({Scomberomorus
maculatus}), of the American coast, is covered with
bright yellow circular spots.
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Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel. (Zool.) See under Chub.
Frigate mackerel. See under Frigate.
Horse mackerel . See under Horse.
Mackerel bird (Zool.), the wryneck; -- so called because it
arrives in England at the time when mackerel are in
season.
Mackerel cock (Zool.), the Manx shearwater; -- so called
because it precedes the appearance of the mackerel on the
east coast of Ireland.
Mackerel guide. (Zool.) See Garfish
(a) .
Mackerel gull (Zool.) any one of several species of gull
which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the kittiwake.
Mackerel midge (Zool.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish of
the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long
and has four barbels on the upper jaw. It is now
considered the young of the genus Onos, or Motella.
Mackerel plow, an instrument for creasing the sides of lean
mackerel to improve their appearance. --Knight.
Mackerel shark (Zool.), the porbeagle.
Mackerel sky, or Mackerel-back sky, a sky flecked with
small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.
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Mackerel sky and mare's-tails
Make tall ships carry low sails. --Old Rhyme.
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Scomberomorus regalis
(gcide) | Pintado \Pin*ta"do\, n.; pl. Pintados. [Sp., painted, fr.
pintar to paint.]
1. (Zool.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species
are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl,
the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best
known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.
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2. A fish (Scomberomorus regalis) similar to, but larger
than, the Spanish mackerel, and having elongated spots,
common about Florida and the West Indies.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Cero \Ce"ro\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Sp. sierra saw, sawfish, cero.]
(Zool.)
A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the
genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West
Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United
States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called
also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero ({Scomberomorus
regalis}).
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Somber
(gcide) | Somber \Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\(?; 277), a. [F. sombre; cf.
Sp. sombra, shade, prob. from LL. subumbrare to put in the
shade; L. sub under + umbra shade. See Umbrage.]
1. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a
somber house.
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2. Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person;
somber reflections.
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The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was
also short. --Beaconsfield.
[1913 Webster] SomberSomber \Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\, v. t.
To make somber, or dark; to make shady. [R.]
[1913 Webster] SomberSomber \Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\, n.
Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [Obs.]
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Somberly
(gcide) | Somberly \Som"ber*ly\, Sombrely \Som"bre*ly\, adv.
In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.
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Somberness
(gcide) | Somberness \Som"ber*ness\, Sombreness \Som"bre*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
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Wool comber
(gcide) | Wool \Wool\ (w[oo^]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to
D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld,
Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr.
[=u]r[.n][=a] wool, v[.r] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf.
Flannel, Velvet.]
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1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which
grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in
fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied
to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most
essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate
climates.
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Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin.
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2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
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Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak.
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3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense,
curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
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Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass.
Mineral wool. See under Mineral.
Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.
Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.
Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.
Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool.
Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or
extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen
cloth.
Wool comber.
(a) One whose occupation is to comb wool.
(b) A machine for combing wool.
Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum)
with numerous clustered woolly spikes.
Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.
Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling
malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the
wool of goats and sheep.
Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought
to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.]
Wool stapler.
(a) One who deals in wool.
(b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its
adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.
Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool
into bundles to be packed for sale.
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beachcomber
(wn) | beachcomber
n 1: a vagrant living on a beach |
bomber
(wn) | bomber
n 1: a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight
2: a person who plants bombs
3: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise
and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and
lettuce and condiments); different names are used in
different sections of the United States [syn: bomber,
grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, {Cuban
sandwich}, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub,
submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep] |
bomber aircrew
(wn) | bomber aircrew
n 1: the crew of a bomber [syn: bomber crew, bomber aircrew] |
bomber crew
(wn) | bomber crew
n 1: the crew of a bomber [syn: bomber crew, bomber aircrew] |
bomber harris
(wn) | Bomber Harris
n 1: British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II
he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that
resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984) [syn:
Harris, Bomber Harris, Sir Arthur Travers Harris] |
bomber jacket
(wn) | bomber jacket
n 1: a jacket gathered into a band at the waist |
bromberg
(wn) | Bromberg
n 1: an industrial city and river port in northern Poland [syn:
Bydgoszcz, Bromberg] |
comber
(wn) | comber
n 1: a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton
or wool
2: a long curling sea wave
3: a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton
or wool |
dive bomber
(wn) | dive bomber
n 1: a bomber that releases its bombs during a steep dive toward
the target |
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