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One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

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• lax

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(plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

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• salmon pink

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The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.

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Snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

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To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

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Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

The catch and canning of salmon are particularly important.

Trout and salmon are plentiful in the river.

Salmon are known to have existed at Maidenhead so recently as 1812, but they disappeared soon after that date.

The town is a centre for salmon and trout fishing on the Blackwater and its tributary the Funshion.

Portrush has a thriving trade in salmon.

Cayley, however, has shown that, whatever be the degrees of the three equations, it is possible to represent the resultant as the quotient of two determinants (Salmon, l.c. p. 89).

Numerous hybrids have been raised, varying in colour from creamy white to salmon, pink, yellow, red and orange.

In 1894 the number of boxes of Scottish salmon delivered at Billingsgate market in London was 15,489, and in 1903 it was 15,103, being more than half of the salmon received then from all parts of Europe, including Irish and English consignments.

The fisheries are of great value, and there is an export trade to England in salmon, which are despatched in ice.

The artificial propagation and preservation of salmon and other edible fresh-water fish have been carried on successfully under the supervision of a state commission.

Woollen cloth, machinery and spirits are manufactured; there is an extensive salt-mine in the neighbouring Zillenberg; the salmon and lamprey fisheries are important; and a fair amount of commercial activity is maintained.

Fresh salmon never smells fishy, it smells fresh.

At Poitiers he came in contact with the humanist Marc Antoine Muret, and with Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), a Latin poet famous in his day.

So far acclimatizers note but few failures; the chief case is that of the salmon.

The fisheries of the Bann and of Lough Neagh (especially for salmon) are of value both commercially and to sportsmen, the small town of Toome, at the outflow of the river, being the centre.

The fishery includes salmon in the Oder, trout in the mountain streams, and carp in the small lakes or ponds with which the province is sprinkled.

The Gudenaa is the only salmon river in Denmark.

Salmon are to be found in almost incredible numbers.

More than 3,000,000 salmon have been canned here in one season.

Car park nearby has display about life cycle of the salmon.

Varieties include turkey, salmon, chicken and tuna.

As for your cheek color, opt for salmon, soft red or deep rose.

Christiansand is an important fishing centre (salmon, mackerel, lobsters), and sawmills, wood-pulp factories, shipbuilding yards and mechanical workshops are the principal industrial works.

On Introduction the ablest older English work was Salmon, Historical Introduction to the Study of N.T.

Many of the lakes and rivers have been stocked with trout and salmon or bass; some, with smelt; the fresh waters of the state also contain pickerel, perch, pouts, eels, suckers, dace, sunfish and shiners.

Fisheries.-Although the trout and salmon of the fresh waters in the interior are a great attraction to sportsmen,.

To that country fresh fish is sent in large quantities, and there is an important trade in canned salmon between British Columbia and Great Britain.

The principal fisheries are those on the Atlantic coast, carried on by the inhabitants of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the eastern section of Quebec. Cod, herring, mackerel and lobsters are the fish chiefly caught, though halibut, salmon, anchovies and so-called sardines are also exported.

In British Columbian waters the main catch is of salmon, in addition to which are halibut, oolachan, herring, sturgeon, cod and shellfish.

It is covered almost completely with dense forest, and has anumberof streams abounding with salmon.

Potatoes are largely grown in the district, and the salmon fisheries are valuable.

His blunt, direct style of oratory and his somewhat rough manners were characteristic. After the outbreak of the Civil War he was one of the most vigorous critics of the Lincoln administration, whose Ohio member, Salmon P. Chase, had long been a political rival.

These loughs and the smaller loughs, with the streams generally, afford admirable sport with salmon, sea-trout and brown trout, and Ballina is a favourite centre.

The list consists of oxen, sheep, geese, hens, honey, ale, loaves, cheese, butter, fodder, salmon and eels.

The industries include salmon fishing, deep-sea fishing, the making of rope and twine and the freestone quarries of the neighbourhood.

Mallow is a centre for the fine salmon fishing on the Blackwater.

The oyster-beds and salmon fisheries are largely in the hands of the state, which lets them to the highest bidder.

A similar specialization has been observed by Marshall Ward in the Puccinia parasitic on species of Bromus, and by Neger, Marchal and especially Salmon in the Erysiphaceae.

The salmon fishery of the Rhine is very productive, and trout abound in the mountain streams.

Salmon, in The New London Dispensatory, similarly praised the remedy.

The fish of greatest economic value are sturgeon (four species), which yield great quantities of caviare and isinglass, the herring, the salmon and the lobster.

Seward was the most conspicuous Republican in national politics, and Salmon P. Chase had long been in the fore-front of the political contest against slavery.

The carp and salmon tribes are the most abundant; after them rank the pike, the eel, the shad, the roach, the perch and the lamprey.

Warden's Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (Cincinnati, 1874) deals more fully with Chase's private life.

Salmon are taken in the upper reaches of the Drammen.

The Moy is a notable salmon river for rodfishing and its tributaries and the neighbouring lakes contain trout.

The salmon fisheries of the Shannon, for which Limerick is the headquarters of a district, are the most valuable in Ireland.

The avi-fauna is the common Siberian, and the rivers swarm with fish, especially species of salmon (Oncorhynchus).

The herring and other sea fisheries are of some value, and the salmon fishery, in the hands of a company, has long been famous.

It has been noted for salmon fishery in the Tweed from very early times.