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Shiner

noun

A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye. Synonyms: black eye, mouse.

Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light).

Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales. Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus.

Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis.

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"Shiner" Quotes from Famous Books

... the short but blessed spell of its existence—boys just back from an unhallowed frolic in town, and not yet sober enough to face their first sergeant and "the Old Man" at the orderly room. Oh, wonderful things were told of old Shiner and his ranch! In the eyes of some straitlaced commanders he had been little better than a receiver of stolen goods, a soldier Shylock who loaned moneys at usurious interest, a gambler who fleeced the trooper folk of their scanty pay, a dispenser of bad ...

— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King

... sit on de winder An' kip jus' so quiet lak wan leetle mouse, She say de more finer moon never was shiner— Very fonny, for moon ...

— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond

Words linked to "Shiner" : Notropis atherinoides, Scomber, contusion, cyprinid, cyprinid fish, Notropis cornutus, silversides, twinkler, physical object, object, shine, mackerel, genus Scomber, bruise, Notemigonus crysoleucas