mackerel sky (makerelski)

A sky in which the clouds have the form called cirro-cumulus-that is, are broken into fleecy ma es three, four, or more times as long as they are wide, and arranged in parallel groups. Also called mackerel - back sky. 3562 chiefly on the upper Great Lakes, and owes its origin to the fact that Fort Mackinaw was for many years the most remote post in the Northwest, so that from this point a large number of Indians received their supplies. Mackinaw blankets were of various sizes, colors, and qualities. Mackinaw boat. A flat-bottomed, flat-sided boat with sharp prow and square stern, used on the upper Great Lakes and the rivers emptying into them. The advantage of the Mackinaw boat over the birch canoe is that its beam stands rougher handling, and that it can be drawn up on the beach without being unloaded; the disadvantage is that it is too heavy to be carried over portages, as the birch canoe is carried. The largest Mackinaw boats are rowed by four or more persons, and ar are often rigged with a sail. Mackinaw trout. See trout. mackinst, n. See mack in. mackintosh (mak'in-tosh), n. [Also macintosh; so named from Charles Mackintosh, the inventor.] 1. A garment, particularly an overcoat or cloak, rendered water-proof by a solution of india-rubber, either applied on the surface as a coating or placed between two thickne es of some cloth of suitable texture.2. Rubber cloth of the kind used in making a mackintosh. The bed is covered with a mackintosh sheet. Lancet, No. 3426, p. 830. mackish (mak'ish), a. [Origin uncertain; cf. mackerly.] Smart. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] mackle (mak'l), n. [Early mod. E. macull; He... could... represent emblematically the downfall of majesty as in his raree-show and mackninny. Roger North , Examen, p. 590. ( Davies .)