Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ATH'E-RINE, or ATH-E-RI'NA, n.

A genus of fishes or the Abdominal order. The characters are, the upper jaw is rather flat, the rays of the gill membrane are six, and the side belt or line shines like silver. There are four species the best known is the Hepsetus, very abundant in the Mediterranean, where it is caught in large quantities. – Pennant. Ed. Encyc.