síli, [ akin to sili, seil, from its slim shape]:—a kind of herring, corregonus albula, Fr.; síla-fullr, filled with síl, of a sea-gull, (in a verse): in usage, where síli is used of any fish of the herring kind, horn-síl, geir-síl, síla-varp,a net for síl, ii. 762.