sardonic (sardonik)

to which end the factories are usually within two on stone tables, the fish are headed and gutted; they are then allowed to drain on wooden slats overnight, after be-d ing slightly salted. Next day they are salted again, and allowed to dry. They are then cooked in oil, and put in wire baskets to drip. The cooking is a nice proce ; if it is overdone the scales come off, which impairs the market value. Five or six minutes suffices for the cooking. When cold the fish are placed on tables, to be arranged in the boxes, in oil dipped from barrels. The oil being worth more than the fish, bulk for bulk, it is an object to fill the boxes as closely as po ible with fish. The boxes are then Where strained sardonic smiles are glosing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 391. A ma 2. [l. c.] Gulfweed. sarga um-shell (sär-gas'um-shel), n. rine gastropod astropod of the family Litiopidæ; the gulfweed-shell. Also sarga o -shell. Sargina (sär-ji'nä), n. pl. [NL., combined in the same family with Sparinæ. Günther. sargine (sär'jin), n. and a. I. n. A sparoid fish of the subfamily Sargina. II. a. Of or having the characteristics of the Sargina . sargo (sär'go), n . [Sp., Sar gus .] A sparoid fish of the genus Sargus or Diplodus , especially D. sargus or S. rondelet i , of the Mediterranean and neighboring seas. Also called sar , saragu, sargon. Sargus (särgus), n. [NL., sargus , σαργός , a kind of mullet.] 1. In ichth ., a genus of sparoid fishes, properly called Diplodus , typical of the subfamily Sargina . Various limits have been given to it; and the American sheepshead was included in it by the old authors. Cuvier, 1817.-2. In entom ., a genus of dipterous in sects. Fabric i us.