Also 8 athorine. [ad. mod.L. atherīna, a. Gr. ἀθερίνη a kind of smelt.] Name given to various species of smelt.
[1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Atherina … is a small fish of the length and thickness of a finger.]
1770. Phil. Trans., LX. Introd. 14. The Gwiniad and Athorine.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 285. The argentina, or Tiber pearl-fish, is strikingly like the atherine or sea smelt.
