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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

Any one of several species of small fishes of the family

Atherinidae

, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (

Menidia notata

) is very abundant. Called also

silverside

sand smelt

friar

tailor

, and

tinker

Brook silversides

(Zool.)

a small fresh-water North American fish (

Labadesthes sicculus

) related to the marine silversides.

silversides ‎(plural silversides)

silversides