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Webster 1913 Edition

Pilchard

Pil′chard

,
Noun.
[Cf. It.
pilseir
, W.
pilcod
minnows.]
(Zool.)
A small European food fish (
Clupea pilchardus
) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.
Fools are as like husbands as
pilchards
are to herrings.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Pilchard

PIL'CHARD

,
Noun.
A fish resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder; the nose is shorter and turns up; the under jaw is shorter; the back more elevated, and the belly less sharp. These fishes appear on the Cornish coast in England, about the middle of July, in immense numbers, and furnish a considerable article of commerce.

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