Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the genus Alosa.
  • To praise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The European shad (Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima). See shad.
  • transitive verb obsolete To praise.

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Examples

  • Shut your mouth before we turn Joe Biden alose on you loooooooserman.

    Lieberman attacks Obama over foreign policy 2008

  • It provides an opportunity to reaffirm all that we have in common, while at the same time recognising not just what are now our distinct roles and identities, but alose how much we can learn from each other.

    Speech during Australia Week Alex Allan 2009

  • 'But no! I can guess clearly how it alose before: it alose thlough the sheer carelessness of the first men.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • Before starting, her host wished her to eat some fish, an 'alose,' which had just been brought to him.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • Before starting, her host wished her to eat some fish, an 'alose,' which had just been brought to him.

    Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

  • i have good results with weaver and leupold but i use lock tite on all my rifles. i dont like the thought of alose mount or ring best of luck this season.

    What brand scope rings do you trust to hold your optics in place? 2009

  • i have good results with weaver and leupold but i use lock tite on all my rifles. i dont like the thought of alose mount or ring best of luck this season.

    What brand scope rings do you trust to hold your optics in place? 2009

  • In reality the word _elft_ has nothing to do with _eleven_, for _elft_ = Fr. _alose_ or Eng. _allice_.]

    Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

  • The other sort of butter, which is eaten by the common people, and which in fact is made throughout the whole of Lower Normandy, (the very butter, in short, in which the huge _alose_ was floating in the pot of the lively cuisiniere at

    A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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