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midshipman: see toadfish toadfish, common name for the sluggish, bottom-feeding fishes of the genus Opsanus, found in the shallow waters from New Jersey to the Caribbean. Toadfishes feed almost entirely on crustaceans and small fishes. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| "They have arrived, lieutenant," exclaimed a young midshipman, "and they are doing what all travelers do when they arrive in a new country, taking a walk It was a seaman, quite a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman; but a midshipman it was not. M'Donald had kept up the excitement during the voyage, so that not a midshipman but revelled in dreams of ample prize- money, nor a lieutenant that would have sold his chance for a thousand pounds. |
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