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Bream   /brim/   Listen
noun
Bream  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
2.
(Zool.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
3.
(Zool.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.



verb
Bream  v. t.  (past & past part. breamed; pres. part. breaming)  (Naut.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.






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"Bream" Quotes from Famous Books



... who inherited the wandering and adventurous longings of my father, are the only things I can remember of this period which gave me any pleasure. I can see vividly the banks of the Mohawk, where we used to fish for perch, bream, and pike-perch; recall where, with my brother Charles, we found the rarer flowers of the valley, the cypripediums, the most rare wild-ginger, only to be found in one locality, the walking fern, equally rare, ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James

... the rich is long and long— The longest of hangmen's cords; But the kings and crowds are holding their bream, In a giant shadow o'er all beneath Where God stands holding the scales of Death ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton

... our parlor, and soon into the supper-room.... The night flitted over us all, and passed away, and up rose a gray and sullen morning,... and we had a splendid breakfast of flapjacks, or slapjacks, and whortleberries, which I gathered on a neighboring hill, and perch, bream, and pout, which I hooked out of the river the evening before. About nine o'clock, Hillard and I set out for a walk to Walden Pond, calling by the way at Mr. Emerson's, to obtain his guidance or directions, and he accompanied ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various

... century ago. Capes Wiwiki and Brett we have no previous acquaintance with, though we have heard of the Bay of Islands, over whose wide entrance they are the twin sentinels. And then in slow succession we sight the Poor Knights Islands, Bream Head, the Hen and Chickens, the Barrier Islands—Great and Little, Cape Colville, Rodney Point, and the Kawau, Sir George Grey's ...
— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay

... he handle flesh, I'd wish to know? And all that comes up from the tide? Bream, now; that is a fish is very pleasant to me—stewed or fried with butter till the bones of it melt in your mouth. There is nothing in sea or strand but is the better of a quality cook—only oysters, that are best left alone, being as they are all ...
— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory


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