Bonito: alternatives and connections

A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Med…

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; b…

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tr…

Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet…

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as…

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "f…

An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and i…

an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed; "the multiplication of four by three…

In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything.

thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin