shadn.

Brit.

/ʃad/, U.S.

/ʃæd/

Forms: Old English sceadd, 1500s–1600s shadde, (1600s shed), 1600s, 1800s chad, 1500s– shad. plural shad, also shads (? 1600s shades).

Etymology: Old English sceadd, of unknown origin; compare Welsh ysgadan, plural (singular ysgadanyn), Irish and Gaelic sgadan, herring. The Low German schade shad, herring, may be from English; in dictionaries it has been confused with scheide sheat-fish, catfish.

1. Any clupeoid of the genus Alosa; the British species are the allice, A. communis or vulgaris, and the twaite (or herring-shad), A. finta; the common or white shad of America is A. sapidissima, and the Chinese shad is A. reevesi.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of genus Alosa (shad)

shad1002

savalo1622

gaspereau1703

1002 Will in Kemble Cod. Dipl. VI. 147 On ðæt gerad, ðonne sceaddgenge sy, ðæt heora ægðer sylle. iii. þusend sceadda into ðære stowe æt Byrtune.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Acon,..a fyshe, whiche after the description of Paulus Iouius, I suppose to be that, whiche at London is callid a shad [1545 shadde].

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health clxxviii. 143 Shad & Mackerel are both sweete in tast & soft in substance.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 30 Of round fish,..Chad, &c.

1629 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 28 (Arb.) I. 356 Of fish we were best acquainted with Sturgeon, Grampus, Popus..Catfish, Shades, Pearch of three sorts,..and Muscles.

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. ix. 34 The Shaddes be bigger than the English Shaddes and fatter.

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr2/2 Whil'st I [had]..seen poor rogues retire, all gore, and gash'd Like bleeding Shads.

1792 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 245 To furnish me with a certain quantity of shad and herreing.

1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 92 There were..broiled shad and roasted chickens.

1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 24 Ælian again tells us, that the chad is allured by the sound of castanets.

1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 238 Bream, chads, or young bream, gurnards.

1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log viii. 164 A herring-shad—a large bony flat-fish like a magnified fresh~water bream.

2. U.S. Applied, usually with defining word, to other fishes, as gizzard shad n. the genus Dorosoma, esp. D. cepedianum (called also mud shad, white-eyed shad, winter shad). green-tailed shad n. (also hard-headed shad, hard-head shad, yellow-tailed shad) the menhaden. long-boned shad n. = mojarra n. 2. Ohio shad n. Pomolobus chrysochloris. trout shad n. the squeteague.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > doromosa cepedianum (hickory shad)

hickory shada1816

shad-herring1845

mud shad1876

gizzard shad1884

stink-shad1884

white-eyed shad1884

winter shad1884

thread-herring1888

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > brevoortia tyrannus (menhaden)

old wife1585

yellowtaila1622

whiting1735

shadine1782

hardhead1792

menhaden1792

mossbunker1792

bony fish1815

pauhagen1833

pogy1840

green-tailed shad1884

schoolie1891

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 569 The Menhaden... ‘Hard-head Shad’... ‘Yellow-tailed Shad.’

1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 608 The ‘Tailor Shad.’

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 610 The..‘Mud-Shad’, ‘Winter Shad’, or ‘Stink Shad’,.. the ‘Gizzard Shad’,..or ‘White-eyed Shad’.

3. As a term of abuse. rare.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

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1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4^v Then you are an Otter, and a Shad, a Whit, A very Tim.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Jan. 252/2 Spiders in a desert, you shad?.. You don't ever reflect, Huck Finn, and I reckon you really haven't got anything to reflect with.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. Simple attributive.

shadbone n.

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1924 M. Moore Observations 51 The small tuft of fronds or Katydid legs above each eye..the shadbones regularly set about his mouth, to drop or rise.

shad-box n.

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1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 409 These eggs were placed in shad boxes.

shad-fish n.

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1679 A. Lovell tr. F. Pomey Indiculus Universalis 35 A Shed fish, Alosa.

1908 Ld. Cromer Mod. Egypt II. 326 Six live electric shad-fish from the Nile.

shad-fisher n.

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1860 Harper's Mag. Nov. 795/1 A party of shad~fishers, pulling in their seine.

1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 195 The shad~fishers of Seville.

shad fishery n.

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1857 M. H. Perley Hand-bk. New Brunswick 25 Upwards of two hundred boats and five hundred men are employed in the shad fishery, every season, in Cumberland Basin.

shad-fry n.

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1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 606 The shad fry..spend the first six months in our rivers.

shad genus n.

shad-hatcher n.

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1891 Cent. Dict. Shad-hatcher, one who engages in the artificial propagation of shad.

shad roe n.

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1888 All about Alaska (Pacific Coast Steamship Co.) 54 Herring roe is to the native Sitkans what the shad roe is to the dwellers on the Susquehanna and the Potomac.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 23 Oct. 19/4 And, this is the place for exotic fish eating, with surprises like..shad roe, wolf fish.

shad-seine n.

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1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 604 In the Albemarle the important Shad seine~fisheries begin early in March.

1891 Cent. Dict. at Seine Shad-seine, a seine especially adapted or used for taking shad, and generally of great size.

C2. Special combinations. [Chiefly U.S. names of plants which are in flower or fruit when the shad are found in the rivers, and of birds, insects, etc. that appear about that time.] See also shad-belly n.

shad-berry n. the shad-bush or its fruit.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > June-berry

poire1801

Juneberry1810

May-cherry1832

shad-berry1861

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 537 Amelanchier canadensis.—The fruit is known in Rupert's Land, &c., under the name of ‘Shad-berry or Service-berry’.

shad-bird n. (a) dialect the common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus, ? obsolete; (b) ‘the common American snipe, Gallinago wilsoni or G. delicata’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper)

sea-lark1602

sandpiper1674

sand laverock1694

sandy laverock1710

sand lark1771

summer snipe1794

shad-bird1879

fiddler1885

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe)

snitec725

snipec1325

brewea1475

mire-snipea1525

heather-bleater?1590

jack snipe1664

earn-bleater1754

weather-blate1802

full snipe1824

heather-bleat1824

shad-bird1879

gutter-snipe-

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Shad-bird It is probable that the Severn fishermen, connecting the appearance of the bird with the advent of the shad-fishing season, gave to it the local appellation of Shad-bird.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Shad-bird.

1883 Kriger in Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 157 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl. [In Delaware] snipe are called shad-birds by many of the fishermen.

1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 164 Shad~fishing is still a flourishing industry in the Valley of the Minho.

shad-blossom n. the shad-bush or its blossom.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > service-berry or shadbush

service1785

saskatoon1802

service-berry1805

Juneberry1810

shad-blossoma1817

shad-flower1817

shad-bush1818

grape-pear1840

service tree1844

shad-blow1846

saskatoon berry1887

veitchberry1913

Indian pear1956

a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 42 Shad blossom. This tree grows about fifteen feet in height.

1860 ‘E. Wetherell’ & ‘A. Lothrop’ Say & Seal II. xi. 175 Under the trees were various low shrubs in flower,—shad-blossom, with its fleecy stems, and azalia, in rosy pink.

shad-blow n. = shad-bush n.

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service1785

saskatoon1802

service-berry1805

Juneberry1810

shad-blossoma1817

shad-flower1817

shad-bush1818

grape-pear1840

service tree1844

shad-blow1846

saskatoon berry1887

veitchberry1913

Indian pear1956

1846 D. J. Browne Trees Amer. 282 The Canadian Amelanchier..[also called] June Berry, Shad-blow, Shad-flower.

1869 J. G. Fuller Uncle John's Flower Gatherers 30 This is what you children call ‘Shadblow’.

1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 710/2 Shadblow, with leaves of bluish green, white flowers or green berries waiting for the sun to make them red.

1960 Washington Post 25 Jan. b1/4 Trees considered to be worth only 60 per cent..are..common horse-chestnut, shadblow serviceberry, [etc.].

† shad-brid n. Obsolete (see quot. 1688).

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus phoxinus (minnow) > young or small

shad-brid1688

pinkeen1831

pinhead1845

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/2 A Minnow [is] first a Shad~brid, then a Sprat, then a Minnow.

shad-bush n. the genus Amelanchier, esp. A. canadensis, also called June-berry or service-berry; also elliptical.

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service1785

saskatoon1802

service-berry1805

Juneberry1810

shad-blossoma1817

shad-flower1817

shad-bush1818

grape-pear1840

service tree1844

shad-blow1846

saskatoon berry1887

veitchberry1913

Indian pear1956

1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 145 Aronia..botryapium..shad-bush.

1837 J. M. Peck Gaz. Illinois I. 43 Shadbush leaved out, April 12, 1834.

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 327 Within the woods..the shadbush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens.

1886 Harper's Mag. June 149/1 Kites, tops, hoops..all appear in due season as regularly as..the blossoms of the ‘shad’.

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 11 Aug. 114/2 The Eastern shadbush, with its two varieties, and the northwestern (species of Amelanchier) come next.

shad-flower n. (a) = shad-bush n. (Miller Plant-n. 1884); (b) the whitlow-grass, Draba verna ( Cent. Dict.).

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service1785

saskatoon1802

service-berry1805

Juneberry1810

shad-blossoma1817

shad-flower1817

shad-bush1818

grape-pear1840

service tree1844

shad-blow1846

saskatoon berry1887

veitchberry1913

Indian pear1956

1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 55 Aronia..botryapium, (shad-flower).

shad-fly n. a fly which appears when shad are running.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > member of

drake-flya1450

hemeraa1592

ephemeron1626

ephemeran1643

ephemeraa1676

drake1676

grey drake1676

yellow-dun1676

greentail1681

grannom1787

ephemeral1817

shad-fly1825

ephemerid1872

1825 Canad. Mag. 4 474 The ephemeral Spring Fly, called..by the English the Shad Fly, as they are supposed to indicate the approach of the fish.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 237 We met with ephemerae (shad-fly) midway, about a mile from the shore.

shad-frog n. Rana halecina or virescens.

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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Diplasiocoela > family Ranidae (common frogs) > member of genus Rana

shad-frog1791

thirsty frog1802

wrestler frog1892

Goliath1931

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 278 The shad frog, so called in Pennsylvania from their appearing and croaking in the spring season, at the time the people fish for shad.

1852 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 7 Oct. (1997) V. 366 Painted tortoises & shad frogs.

shad-herring n. a gizzard shad.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > doromosa cepedianum (hickory shad)

hickory shada1816

shad-herring1845

mud shad1876

gizzard shad1884

stink-shad1884

white-eyed shad1884

winter shad1884

thread-herring1888

1845 Storer in Mem. Amer. Acad. (1846) II. 462 Chatoëssus signifer Dekay…Called ‘Shad-Herring’, ‘Thread-Herring’, and ‘Thread-fish’ in New York.

shad-salmon n. the whitefish or freshwater herring, Coregonus clupeiformis of Lakes Erie and Ontario.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Coregonus (whitefish) > member of

whiting1587

gwyniad1612

powan1633

whitefish1698

tittimeg1705

omul1706

pollack1707

pollan1714

skelly1740

vendace1769

tullibee1789

ferra1807

roundfish1821

herring-salmon1836

shad-salmon1842

mountain herring1877

bluefin1878

grayling1879

shad-waiter1879

houting1880

kilch1881

Menominee1882

gizzard-fish1883

1842 in Mem. Amer. Acad. (1846) II. 452 Coregonus clupeiformis, Common Shad-Salmon.

shad-spirit n. U.S. the shad-bird.

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a1888 O. B. Grinnell in G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 157 As the bird arrives about the same time as the shad..the fishermen..hear its sharp cry as it flies away through the darkness. They do not know the cause of the sound, and from the association they dubbed its author the shad spirit.

shad-splash n. = shad-wash n. (1891 in Cent. Dict.).

shad-tree n. = shad-bush n. (1895 in Funk's Standard Dict. Eng. Lang.).

shad-trout n. the squeteague.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague)

bass1530

trout1604

weakfish1686

sea bass1765

corvina1787

salmon1798

sheep's head1836

squeteague1838

grey trout1856

white trout1861

roncador1867

shad-trout1884

squit1884

bastard trout1888

wheat-fish1888

yellowfin1888

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 362 In the Southern Atlantic States it [the Squeteague] is called ‘Grey Trout’, ‘Sun Trout’, and ‘Shad Trout’.

shad-waiter n. the Menomonee whitefish, Coregonus quadrilateralis.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Coregonus (whitefish) > member of

whiting1587

gwyniad1612

powan1633

whitefish1698

tittimeg1705

omul1706

pollack1707

pollan1714

skelly1740

vendace1769

tullibee1789

ferra1807

roundfish1821

herring-salmon1836

shad-salmon1842

mountain herring1877

bluefin1878

grayling1879

shad-waiter1879

houting1880

kilch1881

Menominee1882

gizzard-fish1883

1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 57 Prosopium quadrilaterale, (Rich.) Milner.—Shad-waiter.

shad-wallow n. the spawning ground of shad.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of genus Alosa (shad) > spawning ground of

shad-wallow1884

1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 606 The favorite spawning grounds of the Shad, or ‘Shad Wallows’, as they are termed by the fisher-men.

shad-wash n. ‘the wash, swish, or splash of the water by shad in the act of spawning; hence a place where shad spawn’ ( Cent. Dict.).

shad-worm n. a ‘worm’ which is the food of shad.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > fed on by fish

slick-worm1796

shad-worm1851

1851 M. H. Perley Rep. Fisheries Bay of Fundy 88 At Windsor, the ‘Shad-worm’ is found upon the mud flats.

1857 M. H. Perley Hand-bk. New Brunswick 25 Their [shad's] favourite food, the shad-worm and the shrimp.

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单词	shad
释义	shadn. Brit. /ʃad/, U.S. /ʃæd/ Forms: Old English sceadd, 1500s–1600s shadde, (1600s shed), 1600s, 1800s chad, 1500s– shad. plural shad, also shads (? 1600s shades). Etymology: Old English sceadd, of unknown origin; compare Welsh ysgadan, plural (singular ysgadanyn), Irish and Gaelic sgadan, herring. The Low German schade shad, herring, may be from English; in dictionaries it has been confused with scheide sheat-fish, catfish. 1. Any clupeoid of the genus Alosa; the British species are the allice, A. communis or vulgaris, and the twaite (or herring-shad), A. finta; the common or white shad of America is A. sapidissima, and the Chinese shad is A. reevesi. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of genus Alosa (shad) shad1002 savalo1622 gaspereau1703 1002 Will in Kemble Cod. Dipl. VI. 147 On ðæt gerad, ðonne sceaddgenge sy, ðæt heora ægðer sylle. iii. þusend sceadda into ðære stowe æt Byrtune. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Acon,..a fyshe, whiche after the description of Paulus Iouius, I suppose to be that, whiche at London is callid a shad [1545 shadde]. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health clxxviii. 143 Shad & Mackerel are both sweete in tast & soft in substance. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 30 Of round fish,..Chad, &c. 1629 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 28 (Arb.) I. 356 Of fish we were best acquainted with Sturgeon, Grampus, Popus..Catfish, Shades, Pearch of three sorts,..and Muscles. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. ix. 34 The Shaddes be bigger than the English Shaddes and fatter. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr2/2 Whil'st I [had]..seen poor rogues retire, all gore, and gash'd Like bleeding Shads. 1792 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 245 To furnish me with a certain quantity of shad and herreing. 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 92 There were..broiled shad and roasted chickens. 1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 24 Ælian again tells us, that the chad is allured by the sound of castanets. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 238 Bream, chads, or young bream, gurnards. 1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log viii. 164 A herring-shad—a large bony flat-fish like a magnified fresh~water bream. 2. U.S. Applied, usually with defining word, to other fishes, as gizzard shad n. the genus Dorosoma, esp. D. cepedianum (called also mud shad, white-eyed shad, winter shad). green-tailed shad n. (also hard-headed shad, hard-head shad, yellow-tailed shad) the menhaden. long-boned shad n. = mojarra n. 2. Ohio shad n. Pomolobus chrysochloris. trout shad n. the squeteague. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > doromosa cepedianum (hickory shad) hickory shada1816 shad-herring1845 mud shad1876 gizzard shad1884 stink-shad1884 white-eyed shad1884 winter shad1884 thread-herring1888 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > brevoortia tyrannus (menhaden) old wife1585 yellowtaila1622 whiting1735 shadine1782 hardhead1792 menhaden1792 mossbunker1792 bony fish1815 pauhagen1833 pogy1840 green-tailed shad1884 schoolie1891 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 569 The Menhaden... ‘Hard-head Shad’... ‘Yellow-tailed Shad.’ 1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 608 The ‘Tailor Shad.’ 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 610 The..‘Mud-Shad’, ‘Winter Shad’, or ‘Stink Shad’,.. the ‘Gizzard Shad’,..or ‘White-eyed Shad’. 3. As a term of abuse. rare. 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Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4^v Then you are an Otter, and a Shad, a Whit, A very Tim. View more context for this quotation 1894 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Jan. 252/2 Spiders in a desert, you shad?.. You don't ever reflect, Huck Finn, and I reckon you really haven't got anything to reflect with. Compounds General attributive. C1. Simple attributive. shadbone n. ΚΠ 1924 M. Moore Observations 51 The small tuft of fronds or Katydid legs above each eye..the shadbones regularly set about his mouth, to drop or rise. shad-box n. ΚΠ 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 409 These eggs were placed in shad boxes. shad-fish n. ΚΠ 1679 A. Lovell tr. F. Pomey Indiculus Universalis 35 A Shed fish, Alosa. 1908 Ld. Cromer Mod. Egypt II. 326 Six live electric shad-fish from the Nile. shad-fisher n. ΚΠ 1860 Harper's Mag. Nov. 795/1 A party of shad~fishers, pulling in their seine. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 195 The shad~fishers of Seville. shad fishery n. ΚΠ 1857 M. H. Perley Hand-bk. New Brunswick 25 Upwards of two hundred boats and five hundred men are employed in the shad fishery, every season, in Cumberland Basin. shad-fry n. ΚΠ 1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 606 The shad fry..spend the first six months in our rivers. shad genus n. shad-hatcher n. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Shad-hatcher, one who engages in the artificial propagation of shad. shad roe n. ΚΠ 1888 All about Alaska (Pacific Coast Steamship Co.) 54 Herring roe is to the native Sitkans what the shad roe is to the dwellers on the Susquehanna and the Potomac. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 23 Oct. 19/4 And, this is the place for exotic fish eating, with surprises like..shad roe, wolf fish. shad-seine n. ΚΠ 1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 604 In the Albemarle the important Shad seine~fisheries begin early in March. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Seine Shad-seine, a seine especially adapted or used for taking shad, and generally of great size. C2. Special combinations. [Chiefly U.S. names of plants which are in flower or fruit when the shad are found in the rivers, and of birds, insects, etc. that appear about that time.] See also shad-belly n. shad-berry n. the shad-bush or its fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > June-berry poire1801 Juneberry1810 May-cherry1832 shad-berry1861 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 537 Amelanchier canadensis.—The fruit is known in Rupert's Land, &c., under the name of ‘Shad-berry or Service-berry’. shad-bird n. (a) dialect the common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus, ? obsolete; (b) ‘the common American snipe, Gallinago wilsoni or G. delicata’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper) sea-lark1602 sandpiper1674 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sand lark1771 summer snipe1794 shad-bird1879 fiddler1885 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe) snitec725 snipec1325 brewea1475 mire-snipea1525 heather-bleater?1590 jack snipe1664 earn-bleater1754 weather-blate1802 full snipe1824 heather-bleat1824 shad-bird1879 gutter-snipe- 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Shad-bird It is probable that the Severn fishermen, connecting the appearance of the bird with the advent of the shad-fishing season, gave to it the local appellation of Shad-bird. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Shad-bird. 1883 Kriger in Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 157 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl. [In Delaware] snipe are called shad-birds by many of the fishermen. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 164 Shad~fishing is still a flourishing industry in the Valley of the Minho. shad-blossom n. the shad-bush or its blossom. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > service-berry or shadbush service1785 saskatoon1802 service-berry1805 Juneberry1810 shad-blossoma1817 shad-flower1817 shad-bush1818 grape-pear1840 service tree1844 shad-blow1846 saskatoon berry1887 veitchberry1913 Indian pear1956 a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 42 Shad blossom. This tree grows about fifteen feet in height. 1860 ‘E. Wetherell’ & ‘A. Lothrop’ Say & Seal II. xi. 175 Under the trees were various low shrubs in flower,—shad-blossom, with its fleecy stems, and azalia, in rosy pink. shad-blow n. = shad-bush n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > service-berry or shadbush service1785 saskatoon1802 service-berry1805 Juneberry1810 shad-blossoma1817 shad-flower1817 shad-bush1818 grape-pear1840 service tree1844 shad-blow1846 saskatoon berry1887 veitchberry1913 Indian pear1956 1846 D. J. Browne Trees Amer. 282 The Canadian Amelanchier..[also called] June Berry, Shad-blow, Shad-flower. 1869 J. G. Fuller Uncle John's Flower Gatherers 30 This is what you children call ‘Shadblow’. 1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 710/2 Shadblow, with leaves of bluish green, white flowers or green berries waiting for the sun to make them red. 1960 Washington Post 25 Jan. b1/4 Trees considered to be worth only 60 per cent..are..common horse-chestnut, shadblow serviceberry, [etc.]. † shad-brid n. Obsolete (see quot. 1688). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus phoxinus (minnow) > young or small shad-brid1688 pinkeen1831 pinhead1845 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/2 A Minnow [is] first a Shad~brid, then a Sprat, then a Minnow. shad-bush n. the genus Amelanchier, esp. A. canadensis, also called June-berry or service-berry; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > service-berry or shadbush service1785 saskatoon1802 service-berry1805 Juneberry1810 shad-blossoma1817 shad-flower1817 shad-bush1818 grape-pear1840 service tree1844 shad-blow1846 saskatoon berry1887 veitchberry1913 Indian pear1956 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 145 Aronia..botryapium..shad-bush. 1837 J. M. Peck Gaz. Illinois I. 43 Shadbush leaved out, April 12, 1834. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 327 Within the woods..the shadbush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 149/1 Kites, tops, hoops..all appear in due season as regularly as..the blossoms of the ‘shad’. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 11 Aug. 114/2 The Eastern shadbush, with its two varieties, and the northwestern (species of Amelanchier) come next. shad-flower n. (a) = shad-bush n. (Miller Plant-n. 1884); (b) the whitlow-grass, Draba verna ( Cent. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > service-berry or shadbush service1785 saskatoon1802 service-berry1805 Juneberry1810 shad-blossoma1817 shad-flower1817 shad-bush1818 grape-pear1840 service tree1844 shad-blow1846 saskatoon berry1887 veitchberry1913 Indian pear1956 1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 55 Aronia..botryapium, (shad-flower). shad-fly n. a fly which appears when shad are running. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > member of drake-flya1450 hemeraa1592 ephemeron1626 ephemeran1643 ephemeraa1676 drake1676 grey drake1676 yellow-dun1676 greentail1681 grannom1787 ephemeral1817 shad-fly1825 ephemerid1872 1825 Canad. Mag. 4 474 The ephemeral Spring Fly, called..by the English the Shad Fly, as they are supposed to indicate the approach of the fish. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 237 We met with ephemerae (shad-fly) midway, about a mile from the shore. shad-frog n. Rana halecina or virescens. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Diplasiocoela > family Ranidae (common frogs) > member of genus Rana shad-frog1791 thirsty frog1802 wrestler frog1892 Goliath1931 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 278 The shad frog, so called in Pennsylvania from their appearing and croaking in the spring season, at the time the people fish for shad. 1852 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 7 Oct. (1997) V. 366 Painted tortoises & shad frogs. shad-herring n. a gizzard shad. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > doromosa cepedianum (hickory shad) hickory shada1816 shad-herring1845 mud shad1876 gizzard shad1884 stink-shad1884 white-eyed shad1884 winter shad1884 thread-herring1888 1845 Storer in Mem. Amer. Acad. (1846) II. 462 Chatoëssus signifer Dekay…Called ‘Shad-Herring’, ‘Thread-Herring’, and ‘Thread-fish’ in New York. shad-salmon n. the whitefish or freshwater herring, Coregonus clupeiformis of Lakes Erie and Ontario. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Coregonus (whitefish) > member of whiting1587 gwyniad1612 powan1633 whitefish1698 tittimeg1705 omul1706 pollack1707 pollan1714 skelly1740 vendace1769 tullibee1789 ferra1807 roundfish1821 herring-salmon1836 shad-salmon1842 mountain herring1877 bluefin1878 grayling1879 shad-waiter1879 houting1880 kilch1881 Menominee1882 gizzard-fish1883 1842 in Mem. Amer. Acad. (1846) II. 452 Coregonus clupeiformis, Common Shad-Salmon. shad-spirit n. U.S. the shad-bird. ΚΠ a1888 O. B. Grinnell in G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 157 As the bird arrives about the same time as the shad..the fishermen..hear its sharp cry as it flies away through the darkness. They do not know the cause of the sound, and from the association they dubbed its author the shad spirit. shad-splash n. = shad-wash n. (1891 in Cent. Dict.). shad-tree n. = shad-bush n. (1895 in Funk's Standard Dict. Eng. Lang.). shad-trout n. the squeteague. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague) bass1530 trout1604 weakfish1686 sea bass1765 corvina1787 salmon1798 sheep's head1836 squeteague1838 grey trout1856 white trout1861 roncador1867 shad-trout1884 squit1884 bastard trout1888 wheat-fish1888 yellowfin1888 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 362 In the Southern Atlantic States it [the Squeteague] is called ‘Grey Trout’, ‘Sun Trout’, and ‘Shad Trout’. shad-waiter n. the Menomonee whitefish, Coregonus quadrilateralis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Coregonus (whitefish) > member of whiting1587 gwyniad1612 powan1633 whitefish1698 tittimeg1705 omul1706 pollack1707 pollan1714 skelly1740 vendace1769 tullibee1789 ferra1807 roundfish1821 herring-salmon1836 shad-salmon1842 mountain herring1877 bluefin1878 grayling1879 shad-waiter1879 houting1880 kilch1881 Menominee1882 gizzard-fish1883 1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 57 Prosopium quadrilaterale, (Rich.) Milner.—Shad-waiter. shad-wallow n. the spawning ground of shad. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of genus Alosa (shad) > spawning ground of shad-wallow1884 1884 M. MacDonald in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 606 The favorite spawning grounds of the Shad, or ‘Shad Wallows’, as they are termed by the fisher-men. shad-wash n. ‘the wash, swish, or splash of the water by shad in the act of spawning; hence a place where shad spawn’ ( Cent. Dict.). shad-worm n. a ‘worm’ which is the food of shad. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > fed on by fish slick-worm1796 shad-worm1851 1851 M. H. Perley Rep. Fisheries Bay of Fundy 88 At Windsor, the ‘Shad-worm’ is found upon the mud flats. 1857 M. H. Perley Hand-bk. New Brunswick 25 Their [shad's] favourite food, the shad-worm and the shrimp. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shadv. Etymology: < shad n. rare. intransitive. To fish for shad. Cf. shadder n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > fish for type of fish [verb (intransitive)] > for others sharking1860 shad1863 sprat1863 hake1868 drum-fish1879 cod1881 snoek1913 1863 T. W. Higginson Out-door Papers ix. 240 (Funk) Along our maritime rivers the people associate April, not with ‘sugaring’ but with ‘shadding’. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 4/2 Fishing mainly consists, it is true, of pnollocking (whiffing), and chadding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1002v.1863
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