Medical Definition of Hirling
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirling
Literary usage of Hirling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fish and Fishing in the Lone Glens of Scotland: With a History of the by Robert Knox (1854)
"The flesh is very red, and as an article of food equalling the finest hirling.
I cannot, indeed, deem it anything but a young hirling. Five male parr-trout, ..."
2. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Robert Jameson, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1825)
"The tail of the hirling is straighter than that of the salmon or grilse, and it
is quite a short-headed fish ; neither does the head of the hirling shoot ..."
3. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1827)
"The tail of the hirling is straighter than that of the salmon or grilse, and it
is quite a short-headed fish ; neither docs the head of the hirling shoot ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The oil of the hirling is straighter than that of the Minion or grilse, and it
is quite a short-headed Mi ; neither does the head of the hirling shoot like ..."
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