5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Mademoiselle \Ma'de*moi'selle"\, noun; pl. {Mesdemoiselles}. [F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See {Damsel}.]

1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. --Goldsmith.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A marine food fish ({Sci[ae]na chrysura}), of the Southern United States; -- called also {yellowtail}, and {silver perch}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Sailor \Sail"or\, noun One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

Syn: Mariner; seaman; seafarer.

{Sailor's choice}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An excellent marine food fish ({Diplodus rhomboides}, syn. {Lagodon rhomboides}) of the Southern United States; -- called also {porgy}, {squirrel fish}, {yellowtail}, and {salt-water bream}. (b) A species of grunt ({Orthopristis chrysopterus} syn. {Pomadasys chrysopterus}), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also {hogfish}, and {pigfish}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Runner \Run"ner\, noun [From {Run}.]

1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.

3. A messenger. --Swift.

4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North.

5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

6. (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.

9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

10. (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus}) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also {skipjack}, {shoemaker}, and {yellowtail}. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.

14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Yellowtail \Yel"low*tail'\, noun (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus {Seriola}; especially, the large California species ({Seriola dorsalis}) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also {cavasina}, and {white salmon}. (b) The mademoiselle, or silver perch. (c) The menhaden. (d) The runner, 12. (e) A California rockfish ({Sebastodes flavidus}). (f) The sailor's choice ({Diplodus rhomboides}).

Note: Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

yellowtail

noun