Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-LO'SA
A-LO'SA, n.
A fish of passage, called the shad, or mother of herrings, a species of Clupea. It is an abdominal, and some naturalists alledge it to be a different species from the shad. – Encyc. Dict. of Nat. Hist.
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