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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Papula :: Papula (n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.
Seiner :: Seiner (n.) One who fishes with a seine.
Pisces :: Pisces (n. pl.) A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish..
Sport :: Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked..
Fish :: Fish (n.) 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..
Chub :: Chub (n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.
Conder :: Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.
Croaker :: Croaker (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast..
Hoggish :: Hoggish (a.) Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.
Pelfish :: Pelfish (a.) Of or pertaining to pelf.
Boohoo :: Boohoo (n.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.
Scomfish :: Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira..
Gentle :: Gentle (n.) A dipterous larva used as fish bait.
Hask :: Hask (n.) A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish..
By-end :: By-end (n.) Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
Threadfish :: Threadfish (n.) A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads..
Hellgramite :: Hellgramite (n.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera..
Metachrosis :: Metachrosis (n.) The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc..
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