Also 8 vangis, 9 vendis, vendise. [app. ad. OF. vendese, vendoise (mod.F. vandoise) dace.] a. A species of small freshwater fish (Coregonus vandesius) belonging to the same genus as the pollan and powan or gwyniad, found in the lake of Lochmaben in Scotland. b. A closely allied species (Coregonus gracilior) found in Derwentwater, formerly identified with the preceding.
[1684. Sibbald, Scotia Illustrata, II. II. 26. Piscis in Lacu Mabano, Vandesius. In eodem Lacu Gevandesius.]
1769. Pennant, Brit. Zool., III. 268. It [the gwiniad] is the same with the Ferra of the lake of Geneva, the Schelley of Hulsewater, the Pollen of Lough Neagh, and the Vangis and Juvangis of Loch Mabon. Ibid. (1777), in Lightfoot, Flora Scot. (1789), I. 61. Guiniad. Found in Loch-Mabon; called in those parts the Vendace, and Juvangis; and in Loch-Lomond, where it is called the Poan.
1805. Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., II. 272. There is one [fish] that, from every information that can be obtained, is peculiar to that loch [Castle Loch]…. It is called the Vendise or Vendace.
1820. Scott, Abbot, xxiv. Herlings, which frequent the Nith, and vendisses, which are only found in the Castle-Loch of Lochmaben.
1856. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Rur. Sports, 231/1. The Vendace (Coregonus Albula), found also in the Scotch lakes.
1884. Braithwaite, Salmonidæ Westmld., ii. 5. The vendace or vendis and the smelt, or sparling.
attrib. 1867. Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 744/1. Vendace-fishing at Lochmaben takes place only on the 1st of August each year.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 366. Vendace Nets, from Lake Wetter. Ibid., 372. Gwyniad Roe,… Vendace Roe.
