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Whiting: Definition and part of speech

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Whiting

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of White
  2. n. A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; — called also fittin.
  3. n. A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; — called also silver hake.
  4. n. Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; — called also silver whiting, and surf whiting.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Whitebait: Definition and part of speech

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Whitebait

  1. n. A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.
  2. n. The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.