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Salsify :: Salsify (n.) See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster..

Entree :: Entree (n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc..

Tautog :: Tautog (n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll..

Wash :: Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters..

Greengill :: Greengill (n.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood..

Sea Pie :: Sea pie () The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Haematopus..

Stewed :: Stew (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.

Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster..

Sandworm :: Sandworm (n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters..

Ostracea :: Ostracea (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

Milk :: Milk (n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster..

Trillachan :: Trillachan (n.) The oyster catcher.

Ruche :: Ruche (n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn..

Beard :: Beard (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster..

Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Oystering :: Oystering (n.) Gathering, or dredging for, oysters..

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..

Spat :: Spat (n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively..

Roysterer :: Roysterer (n.) same as Roister, Roisterer..

Drill :: Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea..

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