Definition of coast

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Coast (n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.

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Loligo :: Loligo (n.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait..
Snapper :: Snapper (n.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America..
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
Caranx :: Caranx (n.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel..
Coastways :: Coastways (adv.) By way of, or along, the coast..
Discoast :: Discoast (v. i.) To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated..
Steamboating :: Steamboat (n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers..
Coast :: Coast (n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice..
Counter-salient :: Counter-salient (a.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
Newfoundland :: Newfoundland (n.) An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity..
Single-breasted :: Single-breasted (a.) Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast..
Croaker :: Croaker (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast..
Haddock :: Haddock (n.) A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie..
Sardine :: Sardine (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden..
Capelin :: Capelin (n.) A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod..
Northwest :: Northwest (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest coast..
Sea Lion :: Sea lion () Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidae native of the Pacific Ocean, especially the southern sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco..
Flasher :: Flasher (n.) A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
Spot :: Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife..
Cape :: Cape (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland..
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