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Britt   /brɪt/   Listen
noun
Britt, Brit  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
(b)
The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.


britt  n.  
1.
The young of a herring or sprat or similar fish.
Synonyms: brit.
2.
Minute crustaceans, forming food for right whales.
Synonyms: brit.





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"Britt" Quotes from Famous Books



... deprived of partaking of the Holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, but in virtue of our proper authority and that of all our predecessors, we decree that in punishment of his audacity and presumption he remain under a perpetual anathema."—(Cod. Brit. ...
— St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music • E. G. P. Wyatt
... the immunity which Cromwell granted to such a conspicuous Royalist, was confirmed by finding that Thurloe in a letter (dated 6th April, 1655) to Manning the spy, refers to 'Mr. Upton' as their common friend. (Egerton MSS., Brit. Mus. 2542. fo. 166.) ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various
... considerable infusion of Celtic blood, and such Celtic place-names as "Dunbar" still remain even in the counties where English place-names predominate. A distinguished Celtic scholar tells us: "In all our ancient literature, the inhabitants of ancient Lothian are known as Saix-Brit, i.e. Saxo-Britons, because they were a Cymric people, governed by the Saxons of Northumbria".[31] A further non-Celtic influence was that of the Norse invaders, who attacked the country from the ninth to the eighteenth century, and profoundly modified ...
— An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) • Robert S. Rait
... suffered a screwing motion, so that the polar regions have travelled a little from west to east relatively to the equator. This affords a possible explanation of the north and south trend of our great continents." ("Encycl. Brit." (9th edition), Vol. XXIII. ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... aside.... Making allowances for the exaggerations of later times, we should leave history and tradition altogether unexplained if we disallowed the claim of Solomon to have exercised a creative influence upon the wisdom in Israel." [Footnote: Art. "Proverbs," Encyc. Brit.] ...
— Who Wrote the Bible? • Washington Gladden


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