Crossword-Solution: HERRINGS 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Alewives' cousins. 1 answer
If red, these may mislead 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with HERRINGS (5)

The pork was often tainted, and the fish was of the poorest quality—herrings, which would bring very little if offered for sale in any northern market.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
She always had a big supper for us--herrings and pickles and poppy-seed bread, and lots of cake and preserves.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather 1995
When I was at home in my father’s house In the land of the naked knee, Between the eagles that fly in the lift And the herrings that swim in the sea, And now that I am a captain-man With a braw cockade in my hat— Many a name have I heard,” he thought, “But never a name like that.” III.
Ballads Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
His favourite ejaculation, “Lord!” occurs but once that I have observed in 1660, never in ’61, twice in ’62, and at least five times in ’63; after which the “Lords” may be said to pullulate like herrings, with here and there a solitary “damned,” as it were a whale among the shoal.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
When he got the door open, he did not stay long in the room, but ran out, and the herrings and pottage came after him, and it streamed out over both farm and field.
The Blue Fairy Book Various 1996

Quotes with HERRINGS (3)

The Creator has — I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
Israel Zangwill The Big Bow Mystery
Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea of him, and he thought maybe that was why he had this nagging feeling, this sense that there were things he had to know for himself, only for himself. He knew, of course he knew, that a life wasn't anything like one of those novels Jenny read, that it stumbled along, bouncing off one thing, then another, until it just stopped, nothing wrapped up neatly. He …
Mary Swan
All the statistics about how many jobs you’ll have over your lifetime… (15-20) and how many companies you’ll work for… while true, completely miss the point! From now on, treat those numbers as red herrings — crucial only to HR directors, leaders and companies who are stuck in the past. The Rule of Disruptive Personal Transformation: Every year, you will experience about 100 significant transformative moments. Most will be thrust upon you by the disruptive churn of our times.…
Bill Jensen Future Strong
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Three Across, WSJ.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2019).