Definition of fish

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Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..

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Placoides :: Placoides (n. pl.) A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.
Unhook :: Unhook (v. t.) To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress..
Tippet :: Tippet (n.) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line.
Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
Fish :: Fish (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard..
Tackling :: Tackling (n.) Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling..
Amphirhina :: Amphirhina (n. pl.) A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double..
Noble :: Noble (n.) A European fish; the lyrie.
Hornbeak :: Hornbeak (n.) A fish. See Hornfish.
Barbel :: Barbel (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
Neuridin :: Neuridin (n.) a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc..
Sepiostare :: Sepiostare (n.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
Seerfish :: Seerfish (n.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).
Buss :: Buss (n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
Sunfish :: Sunfish (n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish..
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The hagfish, or myxine..
Weaverfish :: Weaverfish (n.) See Weever.
Eelpout :: Eelpout (n.) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value..
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