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Shark :: Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Galei :: Galei (n. pl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

Porbeagle :: Porbeagle (n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

Requin :: Requin (n.) The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung..

Sea Fox :: Sea fox () The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark..

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

Hybodus :: Hybodus (n.) An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Hybodont :: Hybodont (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones..

Roussette :: Roussette (n.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.

Shovelhead :: Shovelhead (n.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark..

Heterocercal :: Heterocercal (a.) Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks..

Thresher :: Thresher (n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark..

Squalodont :: Squalodon (n.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's..

Sharking :: Sharking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shar.

Plagiostomi :: Plagiostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called also Plagiostomata.

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