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Squid Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a plain.

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  1. noun The young of herring and similar fish.
  2. noun Minute marine organisms, such as crustaceans of the genus Calanus, that are a major source of food for right whales.

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  • There are several points of transition in Jewish religious culture - the brit, the halakeh, the bar mitzvah - with no role for women: They are excluded.
  • Rock was really in its adolescence and the overall sound was now being influenced by punk, brit-pop, new wave, electronic music, prog rock, etc … If all that comes to mind when you think of the 80's is Poison and The Safety Dance, then you need to expand your catalog … —  Lone Star Ball
  • British rock band 'Oasis' performed in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the third time for the brit-pop heavyweights.
  • Noah and the Whale isn't just another northern brit-pop boy-band set to make it big with one global hit and then disappear forever. —  Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.
  • "Smarties" in the US are rolls of the compressed powdered confections that come in small translucent plastic wraps whereas in brit-land Smarties are in fact like big M&Ms. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. Perhaps from Cornish brȳthel, mackerel (from Old Cornish breithil, from *breith, speckled) or from Welsh brithyll, trout (from brith, speckled).
 

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