Word Meanings - PICKLE-HERRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. Shak. 2. A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Addison.

Related words: (words related to PICKLE-HERRING)

• HERR
  A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• HERRINGBONE
  Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework,
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• BUFFOONISH
  Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• BUFFOONISM
  The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
• PRESERVATIVE
  Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
• PICKLOCK
  1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor.
• MERRY
  mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and
• PRESERVABLE
  Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• HERRING
  One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and
• PRESERVATION
  The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• PICKLE
  See PICLE
• BRINE
  1. Water saturated or strongly inpregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters. 2. The ocean; the water of an ocean,
• HERRENHAUS
  See PRUSSIA
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• SHERRY
  A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar,
• COLUBRINE
  like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber. 2. Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.
• UMBRINE
  See 2
• WHERRET
  1. To hurry; to trouble; to tease. Bickerstaff. 2. To box on the ear; to strike or box. ; as, to wherret a child.
• FIBRINE
  Belonging to the fibers of plants.
• SHERRIS
  Sherry. Shak.
• FREIHERR
  In Germany and Austria, a baron.
• SHERRYVALLIES
  Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. Bartlett.