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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States [syn: silversides, silverside]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1820 any of various small chiefly marine bony fishes (family Atherinidae) with a silvery stripe along each side of the body

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Brit. the upper side of a round of beef from the outside of the leg.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Silversides Sil"ver*sides`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinid[ae], having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zo["o]l.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.