a native or inhabitant of Great Britain

minute crustaceans forming food for right whales

the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish

Alt. of Britt

A small fish of the herring kind.

The sister republic's Transvaal and Orange Free State were not destroyed because it was the connecting link between Egypt and the Cape, not because gold was found, no, but because Great Brit. – The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt by Oliver Remey Henry Cochems Wheeler Bloodgood

I regret that I have been unable to find any authentic engravings of this celebrated tournament, but I reproduce a semi- comic contemporaneous etching from the Satirical Prints, Brit. – Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton

374; also Report Brit. – The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith

See him- that's Brit with a red head and blue neck- tie. – Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero by F. Hopkinson Smith

Brit she did not see at all. – Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

B 1, 164; Brit. – Studies from Court and Cloister by J.M. Stone

Bernd was a Brit who was in charge of day- to- day accounting for Bartlett Medical Devices. – Syndrome by Thomas Hoover

The Brit had a track record of success. – Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau

Hydra oligactis, Johnston, Brit. – Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

Brit would not sell his ranch. – Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

You accused me yourself, Lady Brit, of joining the Army to worship Barbara; and so I did. – Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

28, 31, 44; Brit. – The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose

She had married a Brit and had two children of her own. – Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau

Plumatella emarginata, Johnston, Brit. – Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

So she was Brit Hunter's girl! – Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

See also Jeffreys, " Brit. – The Antiquity of Man by Charles Lyell

What's he say about Brit? – Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

" In the course of it I intend to visit the coast of Chili in search of provisions for the use of His Brit. – The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery

I must say that every time I was at Bergskog Brit always looked as if she'd been crying. – Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf