gizzards had (gizardshad)

A popular name of the isospondylous fishes of the family Dorosomida, related to the anchovies, herrings, etc. There are a dozen species, chiefly of the Dorosoma (or Chatoe us), inhabiting fresh and brackish waters of the Atlantic coast of America and the eastern coasts of Asia and Australia. They are sluggish Gizzard-shad (Dorosoma cepedianum). fishes, feeding on mud, and having a muscular gizzard, whence the name. The common gizzard-shad of the United States is Dorosoma cepedianum. Also called hickory -shad, mud-shad, white-eyed shad, and thread - herring. gizzard-trout (giz'ärd-trout), n. Same as gil laroo. gizzen (giz'n), a. [Sc., Ne'er let's gang gizzen , fy for shame, Wi' drouthy tusk. Tarras, Poems, p. 134.