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n. - Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against.
  • It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious),...
  • It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste
  • Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence equal to what 66l. 13s. 4d. would purchase in the present simes, and Asinius Celer gave for...
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