- Baby eel
- Slippery fish
- Young eel
- A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also
elvene.
- A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who
accompanies the dance with castanets.
- A dance formerly common in England, often performed in
pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed
and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other
fictious characters.
- An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed
angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board
or ground on which the game is played.
- A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent
body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or
some allied fish.
- A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for
producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and
Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also
mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both
are edible, but of little value.
- A fresh-water fish, the burbot.