| Fish (fish) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Fish |
| [F. fiche peg,
mark, fr. fisher to fix.] |
A counter, used in various
games.
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| Fish (fish) |
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| n. | |
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| Fish |
| or collectively,
Fish. [OE. fisch, fisc, fis,
AS. fisc; akin to D. visch, OS. *** OHG. fisk, G.
fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk, Goth.
fisks, L. |
A
name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse
characteristics, living in the water.
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.
The twelfth sign of the zodiac;
Pisces.
The flesh of fish, used as food.
A
purchase used to fish the anchor.
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| Fish (fish) |
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| v. i. | (?) |
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| Fish |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Fished (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Fishing.] |
To attempt to catch fish] to
be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a
net.
To seek to obtain by artifice, or
indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for
compliments.
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To catch; to draw
out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
To search by raking or sweeping.
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish
in; as, to fish a stream.
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.
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