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Definition of Menhadens
1. menhaden [n] - See also: menhaden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menhadens
Literary usage of Menhadens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... GILL The menhadens Body elliptical, compressed, deepest anteriorly, tapering
behind; head very large; cheek deeper than long; mouth large, the lower jaw ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Ann,— Fierce as a shark in a school of menhadens, See him advancing, the sweet
little man ! When the red flails of the battle-field threshers Beat out the ..."
3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"Ann; — Fierce as a shark in a school of menhadens, See him advancing, the sweet
little man! When the red flails of the battle-field's threshers Beat out the ..."
4. Hard Tack and Coffee by John D. Billings (2001)
"Yield him the sidewalk, ye nursery maidens! Sauve qui pent! Bridget, and Right
about! Ann;— Fierce as a shark in a school of menhadens, ..."
5. Hardtack and Coffee: Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, Including by John Davis Billings (1887)
"Ann; — Fierce as a shark in a school of menhadens. See him advancing, the sweet
little man! When the red flails of the battlefield's threshers Beal out the ..."
6. The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896)
"Ann ; - Fierce as a shark in a school of menhadens, See him advancing, the sweet
little man ! When the red flails of the battlefield's threshers Beat out ..."
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