MACK'EREL
\mˈakəɹə͡l], \mˈakəɹəl], \m_ˈa_k_ə_ɹ_əl]\
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mak'[.e]r-el, n. a food fish, dark blue, with wavy cross-streaks above, and silvery below.--n. MACK'EREL-SKY, a sky with clouds broken into long, thin, white, parallel masses. [O. Fr. makerel (Fr. maquereau), prob. from L. macula, a spot.]
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Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
- An English novelist; born at Blackheath, 1830; died Brixton, March 13, 1862. She wrote noted "Charles Auchester"(1853), mystical art novel; "Counterparts, or the Cross of Love"(1854); "My First Season"(1855); "The Double Coronet"(1856); "Rumor", a musical and artistic novel(1858).