Definition of "brit" []

• The young of herring and similar fish. (noun)
• Minute marine organisms, such as crustaceans of the genus Calanus, that are a major source of food for right whales. (noun)

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• "The other wrong answer: if you were a book, who would most likely read you? students in brit lit I (middle english to 1600)"
• "Adler also regards this marriage ceremony, called brit ha-ahuvim (covenant of the loved ones), as appropriate for both heterosexual and same-sex couples."
• "In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called brit is to be found, the aliment of the right whale."