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n. Any of various fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially a commercially important food fish (Clupea harengus) of Atlantic and Pacific waters.

n. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.

n. One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

n. A clupeoid fish, Clupea harengus, of great economic importance and commercial value.

n. A herring which has been gutted and dried for keeping.

n. A pickled herring.

To manure with herring or other fish.

n. In Australia, Prototroctes maræna, the Yarra herring, fresh-water herring, grayling, or cucumber-mullet, found in the rivers of Victoria and Tasmania.

n. The ten-pounder, Elops saurus, found in all tropical waters.

n. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

n. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

"In April & May come up another kind of fish which they call herring, or old wives, in infinite schools into a small river running under the town, and so into a great pond or lake of a mile broad where they cast their spawn, the water of the said river being in many places not above half a foot deep."

tailor herring    fall herring    king of the herrings    picton herring    white-salted herring    rainbow herring    perth herring    full herring    yarra herring    egyptian herring   

red herring    English herring    Baltic herring    matjes herring    herringbone    Atlantic herring   

Baring    Behring    Bering    airing    baring    bearing    blaring    caring    chairing    comparing   

mackerel    sardine    salmon    cod    halibut    shad    lobster    tuna    oyster    caviar