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Clupea mediocris
Mattowacca Mat`to*wac"ca, n. [Indian name.] (Zo["o]l.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
Clupea mediocris
Fall Fall, n. 1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. 2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. 3. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. They thy fall conspire. --Denham. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. --Prov. xvi. 18. 4. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. --Pope. 5. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town; as, the fall of Sebastopol. 6. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. 7. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. 8. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. 9. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. 10. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. --Addison. 11. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. 12. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. --Dryden. 13. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. 14. The act of felling or cutting down. ``The fall of timber.' --Johnson. 15. Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. 16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. --B. Jonson. 17. That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. Fall herring (Zo["o]l.), a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); -- also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. --Shak.
Mediocrist
Mediocrist Me"di*o`crist, n. A mediocre person. [R.]

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- storms. ****ulus mediocris is also classified as a low cloud and is coded CL2 by the World Meteorological Organization. ****ulus mediocris is brilliantly...
- Orilesa mediocris is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Kenya. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orilesa mediocris. Wikispecies...
- Coleophora mediocris is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Mongolia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coleophora mediocris. Wikispecies...
- Heterocithara mediocris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. The length of the s**** attains 5.5 mm, its diameter...
- Pleurotoma mediocris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae. According to the World Register of Marine Species,...
- bulb. Langona mediocris is endemic to Zimbabwe. The holotype was found in 1990 in Manicaland. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Langona mediocris Wesolowska...
- usual initial formation in the middle altitude range. Species ****ulus mediocris – These ****uliform clouds of free convection have clear-cut, medium-gray...
- Wikispecies has information related to Eucamptognathus mediocris. "Eucamptognathus mediocris Mateu, 1958". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-09. v...
- deep, moist convection. They are an intermediate stage between ****ulus mediocris and ****ulonimbus, sometimes producing rainshowers, snow, or ice pellets...
- water. ****ulus clouds come in four distinct species, ****ulus humilis, mediocris, congestus, and fractus. These species may be arranged into the variety...