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See mackintosh. var. of mace, a club: see mace1.] A kind of game, apparently played with the use of clubs. Att ale howse too sit, at mack or at mall, Tables or dyce, or that cardis men call, Or what oother game owte of season dwe, Let them be punysched without all rescue. [p. 429. Sir W. For rest, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, mack2 (mak), n. [Origin not ascertained.] A certain bird. See black - mack . One Curtius, when he supped on a time with Audishe. gust us, toke up a leane birde of the kinde of blacke mackes Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 274. (Davies.) Mack3t, n. [A corruption of Mary; cf. malkin, mawkin, ult. dim. of Mary.] A corruption of Mary, with reference to the Virgin Mary. By Mack, by the Virgin Mary. Is not my daughter Maudge as fine a mayd, And yet, by Mack , you see she troules the bowle. Historie of Albino and Bellama (1638), p. 130. ( Nares .) mackerell (mak'e-rel), n. [Formerly also mack mackerel makrel = Sw.makrill = W.macrell = It. macret, Mackerel ( Scomber scombrus). North Atlantic on both sides. It attains a length of 18 inches, though usually le ; it is lustrous dark-blue above, with many wavy blackish cro -streaks, and is silvery below, with the base of the pectorals dark. The Easter, tinker, or chub mackerel is a closely related species, S. pneuma toph or us, so called from po e ing a small air bladder which is lacking in S. scombrus; it is found in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The big-eyed, bull, or coly mackerel is S. colias, a variety of the last, locally named Spanish mackerel in England. The Spanish mackerel of the United States is a scombrid of a different genus, Scombero mor us maculatus, of both coasts of North America, north to Cape Cod and California. It is one of the most valued food-fishes, reaching a considerable size, bluish and silvery above, with bright reflections, the sides with many rounded bronzed spots, the spinous dorsal fin white at base, dark above and anteriorly. Other mackerel of this genus are the cero, S. regal is, and the sierra, S. caballa. Frigate mackerels are scombrids of the genus Auxis, as A. thazard or A. rochei, of le value as food-fish. The horse-mackerel properly so called is the tunny, Orcynus thynnus, the largest of the scombrids, sometimes attaining a length of over 10 feet and a weight of half a ton, found on both sides of the Atlantic; but this name is extended to various other fishes. (See horse - mackerel.) Several carangoid fishes are loosely called mackerel, as the yellow mackerel, Caranx chrysos. (See mackerel - scad.) The bluefish or skipper, Po matomus saltatrix, is sometimes called snapping - mackerel. Mackerel , on account of its perishable nature, was allowed to be sold on Sunday, as Gay notes: "Ev'n Sun days are prophan'd by Mackrell cries." Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 189. Banded mackerel, a carangoid, Seriola zonata, the rudder-fish. [Atlantic coast, U. S.]-Bay-mackerel, the Spanish mackerel. [Chesapeake Bay, U. S.] - Black spotted Spanish mackerel, the cero or kingfish, Scom be rom or us regal is. Eel-gra mackerel, mackerel of inferior quality taken inshore in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. -Fall mackerel, a variety of the common mackerel which has been described as a distinct species under the name of Scomber grex. In this case the true mackerel is called spring mackerel, S. vernal is. But fall mackerel are simply tinkers, about 10 inches long, of wandering or irregular habits. - Green mackerel, a carangoid fish, Chlo roscombrus chrysurus. [Southern coast, U. S.] - Mackerel gale. See gale 2. - Mackerel-latch, in fishing-tackle, a clamp for holding fast the inner end of a line. - Me mackerel, scraped mackerel with the heads and tails cut off, losing in weight 26 pounds on the barrel, but increasing in value: a trade-name. They are a orted as Nos. 1, 2, and 3.-Mized mackerel. Same as thimble -eyed mackerel. Net-mackerel, mackerel of the right size to be meshed. Overgrown mackerel, mackerel 15 inches or more in length. [Fishermen's term.] -Racer mackerel, a slink mackerel.- Round mackerel, any of the mackerel, as distinguished from horse -mackerel, Spanish mackerel, etc. [Fishermen's term.) - Slink mackerel, a poor, thin mackerel taken among schools of fat ones in the fall of the year. [Nova Scotia.] - Soused mackerel, mackerel either fresh or canned by the usual proce , and preserved after an old German recipe employing a pickle of vinegar, spices, and other ingredients. - Spanish mackerel. (a) See def. 1. (b) The bonito, Sarda chi lens is. [California.]-Spotted mackerel, the Spanish mackerel. - Spring mackerel, the ordinary commercial mackerel of good size and quality, sometimes technically named Scom ber vernal is: distinguished - eyed mackerel ser oller Thimble U. S.]-Tinker mackerel. (a) The chub mackerel. ( b ) The common mackerel of next to the smallest of the four commercial sizes ( large, seconds, tinkers, blinks ), which are supposed to indicate respectively four, three, two, and one years of growth. (See also frigate - mackerel.) mackerell (mak'e-rel), v. i.; pret. and pp. mackereled or mackerel led, ppr. mackerel ing or mackerel ling. [ At Orleans, some few men who go mackerel ing in summer stay at home and dig clams in winter. Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 604.