pompano (pompano)

[Sp. pатрапо, арplied to the fish Stromateus fiatola.] 1. A carangoid fish of the West Indies and South Atlantic and Gulf States, Trachynotus carol in us, attaining a length of about 18 inches, and and highly esteemed for food. It is of an oblong rhomboid figure, with blunt snout, the spinous dorsal fin atrophied and rep Common Pompano (Trachynotus carol in us). resented by free spines, and the soft dorsal and anal fins falciform. The color is uniformly bluish above, without dark bands or black on the vertical fins, and silvery or golden on the sides. The name extends to other members of the same genus, as the ovate, round, or short pompano, T. ovatus, of tropical seas (and north as far as Virginia), having the vertical fins largely black; and the glaucous or long-finned pompano, T. glaucus, of tropical seas (and north as far as Virginia and Lower California), having dark vertical bands on the body. 2. In California, a fish, Stromateus simillimus, abundant in summer along the coast, and highly esteemed for food. It is quite different from the foregoing, and is closely related to the harvest-fish, and to the butter-fish or dollar-fish. It has an ovate body rounded in front, the dorsal and anal fins not falciform, and no series of pores along the sides of the back. It is about a foot long, bluish above and bright-silvery below, with pune tulate fins, and the dorsal and anal fins edged with dusk. 3. Along the western coast of Florida, a gerroid fish, Gerres olisthostoma. It has an oblong form with a high rounded back, rather large and very Irish Pompano ( Gerres olisthostoma). smooth scales, and a nearly double dorsal, the anterior part of which has nine spines. It is specifically known as the Irish pompano. pompeont, n. Same as pumpion. pomperkint, n. [Appar. a drink made from apples (cf. pomace, pomade1 ), ult. The sixt sort of Brittish drinkes is Pomperkin , a drinke whose origin all was from Pomeranea (a Province in Ger many), as some writers relate. Some derive it from the Pompon i i (a Noble Roman family). However Authors differ about it, it is not much mater i all; most certaine it is that it is made of Apples, as the name of it imports; being nothing but the Apples bruised and beaten to mash, with water put to them, which is a drinke of so weake a condition that it is no where acceptable but among the Rusticks and Plebeyans. John Taylor, Drinke and Welcome, [all Drinkes, and all Waters.