Alewife Small 320×139 Medium 640×279 Large 1024×446 Download Tiff Original 2400×1046 | (855.8 KB) Description "A North American fish, Clupea Vernalis, from 8 to 10 inches long, resembling a small shad, but much inferior to it as food."-Whitney, 1902 Keywords atlantic, fish, pacific Galleries Fish: A-B Source: William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, an Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York: The Century Co., 1902)I-137