n. 1. A counter, used in various games.
1. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
2. (Zool.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
3. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
4. The flesh of fish, used as food.
5. (Naut.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
fish (usually salted codfish) shared fine, mixed with mashed potato, and made into the form of a small, round cake.
Same as Fish plate (below).
(Mech.) a beam one of whose sides (commonly the under one) swells out like the belly of a fish.
(Zool.) a species of crow (Corvus ossifragus), found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It feeds largely on fish.
the artifical breeding and rearing of fish; pisciculture.
a day on which fish is eaten; a fast day.
(Zool.) any species of merganser.
the tackle depending from the fish davit, used in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.
a dam or weir in a river for keeping fish or taking them easily.
a joint formed by a plate or pair of plates fastened upon two meeting beams, plates, etc., at their junction; - used largely in connecting the rails of railroads.
a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
a dam with a series of steps which fish can leap in order to ascend falls in a river.
a line made of twisted hair, silk, etc., used in angling.
(Zool.) any crustacean parasitic on fishes, esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to Caligus, Argulus, and other related genera. See Branchiura.
(Zool.) the stomach of a fish; also, the air bladder, or sound.
fish desiccated and ground fine, for use in soups, etc.
oil obtained from the bodies of fish and marine animals, as whales, seals, sharks, from cods' livers, etc.
(Zool.) a fish-eating owl of the Old World genera Scotopelia and Ketupa, esp. a large East Indian species (K. Ceylonensis).
one of the plates of a fish joint.
a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for catching crabs, lobsters, etc.
a net attached to stakes, for entrapping and catching fish; a weir.
a broad knife for dividing fish at table; a fish trowel.
an inclined box set in a stream at a small fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current.
the air bladder of certain fishes, esp. those that are dried and used as food, or in the arts, as for the preparation of isinglass.
a story which taxes credulity; an extravagant or incredible narration.
a - A metal colander, with handles, for taking fish from a boiler.
b - A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish, to drain the water from a boiled fish.
a weir set in a stream, for catching fish.
neither one thing nor the other.
v. i. 1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
v. t. 1. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
2. To search by raking or sweeping.
3. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
4. To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.