Note: The name is loosely applied, also, to several other
fishes, as the gizzard shad (see under {Gizzard}),
called also {mud shad}, {white-eyed shad}, and {winter
shad}.
{Hardboaded}, or {Yellow-tailed}, {shad}, the menhaden.
{Hickory}, or {Tailor}, {shad}, the mattowacca.
{Long-boned shad}, one of several species of important food
fishes of the Bermudas and the West Indies, of the genus
{Gerres}.
{Shad bush} (Bot.), a name given to the North American shrubs
or small trees of the rosaceous genus {Amelanchier} ({A.
Canadensis}, and {A. alnifolia}) Their white racemose
blossoms open in April or May, when the shad appear, and
the edible berries (pomes) ripen in June or July, whence
they are called Juneberries. The plant is also called
{service tree}, and {Juneberry}.
{Shad frog}, an American spotted frog ({Rana halecina}); --
so called because it usually appears at the time when the
shad begin to run in the rivers.
{Trout shad}, the squeteague.
{White shad}, the common shad.
{Brook silversides} (Zo["o]l.), a small fresh-water North
American fish ({Labadesthes sicculus}) related to the
marine silversides.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou
wert a man's tailor. --Shak.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The mattowacca; -- called also {tailor herring}.
(b) The silversides.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
{Salt-water tailor} (Zo["o]l.), the bluefish. [Local, U. S.]
--Bartlett.
{Tailor bird} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to
{Orthotomus}, {Prinia}, and allied genera. They are noted
for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form
nests. The common Indian species are {O. longicauda},
which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts
yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the
golden-headed tailor bird ({O. coronatus}), which has the
top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale
olive-green.
These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped
rules. --M. Green.