All 4 Uses of
appellation
in
Moby Dick
- And so the appellation must at last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this spermaceti was really derived.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- I shall enumerate them by their fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun.†
Chpt 31-33
- The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.†
Chpt 40-42
- It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.†
Chpt 94-96
Definition:
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(appellation) word or words by which someone or something is known or classified -- such as a person or wine-growing region