The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Alewife — Ale wife , n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, Phil Trans. No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo[ o]l.) A North American fish… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Alewives — Alewife Ale wife , n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, Phil Trans. No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo[ o]l.) A North American… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
branch herring — Alewife Ale wife , n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, Phil Trans. No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo[ o]l.) A North American… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Clupea vernalis — Alewife Ale wife , n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, Phil Trans. No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo[ o]l.) A North American… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ellwife — Alewife Ale wife , n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, Phil Trans. No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo[ o]l.) A North American… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
alewife — noun a) A woman who keeps an alehouse. b) A North American fish of the herring family. Syn: branch herring, ellwhop, ellwife … Wiktionary
