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3. pl. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
4. The flesh of fish, used as food.
5. (Naut.) (a) A purchase used to fish the anchor. (b) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a
fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
Fish is used adjectively or as part of a compound word; as, fish line, fish pole, fish spear, fish-bellied.
Age of Fishes. See under Age, n., 8. — Fish ball, fish (usually salted codfish) shared fine, mixed
with mashed potato, and made into the form of a small, round cake. [U.S.] — Fish bar. Same as
Fish plate — Fish beam (Mech.), a beam one of whose sides (commonly the under one) swells out
like the belly of a fish. Francis. — Fish crow (Zoöl.), a species of crow (Corvus ossifragus), found on
the Atlantic coast of the United States. It feeds largely on fish. — Fish culture, the artifical breeding
and rearing of fish; pisciculture. — Fish davit. See Davit. — Fish day, a day on which fish is eaten; a
fast day. — Fish duck (Zoöl.), any species of merganser. — Fish fall, the tackle depending from
the fish davit, used in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship. — Fish garth, a dam or weir
in a river for keeping fish or taking them easily. - - Fish glue. See Isinglass. — Fish joint, 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. — Fish kettle, a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
— Fish ladder, a dam with a series of steps which fish can leap in order to ascend falls in a river.
— Fish line, or Fishing line, a line made of twisted hair, silk, etc., used in angling. — Fish louse
(Zoöl.), any crustacean parasitic on fishes, esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to Caligus, Argulus,
and other related genera. See Branchiura. — Fish maw (Zoöl.), the stomach of a fish; also, the air
bladder, or sound. — Fish meal, fish desiccated and ground fine, for use in soups, etc. — Fish oil,
oil obtained from the bodies of fish and marine animals, as whales, seals, sharks, from cods' livers, etc.
— Fish owl (Zoöl.), a fish-eating owl of the Old World genera Scotopelia and Ketupa, esp. a large
East Indian species (K. Ceylonensis). — Fish plate, one of the plates of a fish joint. — Fish pot,
a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for catching crabs, lobsters, etc. — Fish pound, a net
attached to stakes, for entrapping and catching fish; a weir. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. — Fish slice, a
broad knife for dividing fish at table; a fish trowel. — Fish slide, an inclined box set in a stream at
a small fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current. Knight. — Fish sound, 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. — Fish story, a story which taxes credulity; an extravagant or incredible narration. [Colloq.
U.S.] Bartlett. — Fish strainer. (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. — Fish
trowel, a fish slice. — Fish weir or wear, a weir set in a stream, for catching fish. — Neither fish
nor flesh neither one thing nor the other.
Fish
(Fish) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fishing.]
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.
Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott. Fish
(Fish), v. t. [OE. fischen, fisken, fissen, AS. fiscian; akin to G. fischen, OHG. fiscn, Goth. fiskn.
See Fish the animal.]
1. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
2. To search by raking or sweeping. Swift.
3. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. Thackeray.
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