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Called also Mackinaw trout, lake
trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and
tuladi.

Nam"by-pam`by (?), n. [From Ambrose
Phillips, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his
verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or
affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

Nam"by-pam`by, a. Affectedly
pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
Thackeray.

Namby-pamby madrigals of love.

W. Gifford.

Name (?), n. [AS. nama; akin to
D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G. name, Icel.
nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn,
Goth. namō, L. nomen (perh. influenced by
noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know), Gr.
'o`mona, Scr. nāman. √267. Cf.
Anonymous, Ignominy, Misnomer, Nominal,
Noun.] 1. The title by which any person
or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation,
whether of an individual or a class.

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