Word Meanings - TROUTLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little trout; a troutling. Hood.

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• TROUT
  Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidæ. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning
• TROUTLET
  A little trout; a troutling. Hood.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• TROUTLING
  A little trout; a troutlet.
• TROUT-COLORED
  White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• TROUTBIRD
  The American golden plover.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• BULL TROUT
  In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout. Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout. The huso or
• STROUT
  To swell; to puff out; to project. Chaucer.
• MACKINAW TROUT
  The namaycush.
• SEA TROUT
  Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. A California
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.