Mademoiselle \Ma`de*moi`selle"\, n.; pl. Mesdemoiselles. [F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See Damsel.]

1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. --Goldsmith.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A marine food fish (Sci[ae]na chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Yellowtail \Yel"low*tail`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon.
   (b) The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
   (c) The menhaden.
   (d) The runner, 12.
   (e) A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).
   (f) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).

Note: Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

10. (Founding)
   (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
   (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.

14. (Mech.)
   (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
   (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Sailor \Sail"or\, n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

Syn: Mariner; seaman; seafarer.

Sailor's choice. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) An excellent marine food fish (Diplodus, or Lagodon, rhomboides) of the Southern United States; -- called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream.
   (b) A species of grunt (Orthopristis, or Pomadasys, chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)