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1. [informal] A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
   - black eye, mouse
    
2. Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
    
3. Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
   - common mackerel, Scomber scombrus
    
4. Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis

Derived forms: shiners

Type of: article, bruise, contusion, cyprinid, cyprinid fish, mackerel, object, physical object

Part of: genus Scomber, Scomber

Encyclopedia: Shiner, TX