Amber fish () A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.) |
Angel fish () See under Angel. |
Archer fish () A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies |
Balloon fish () A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish. |
Band fish () A small red fish of the genus Cepola |
Barber fish () See Surgeon fish. |
Bellows fish () A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows |
Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur |
Chips (n.) A ship's carpenter. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish (pl. ) of Crayfish |
Fish (n.) A counter, used in various games. |
Fish (pl. ) of Fish |
Fish (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. |
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. |
Fish (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac |
Fish (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food. |
Fish (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor. |
Fish (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. |
Fish (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish |
Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth |
Fish (v. t.) To catch |
Fish (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping. |
Fish (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod |
Fish (v. t.) 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. |
Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side |
Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle. |
Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block. |
Fish-tail (a.) Like the of a fish |
Fly-fish (v. i.) To angle, using flies for bait. |
Flying fish () A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. |
Green-stall (n.) A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. |
Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
Lance fish () A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast |
Margate fish () A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish |
Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip |
Stall (v. i.) A stand |
Stall (v. i.) A stable |
Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale |
Stall (v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. |
Stall (v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving. |
Stall (v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc. |
Stall (v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post. |
Stall (v. t.) To put into a stall or stable |
Stall (v. t.) To fatten |
Stall (v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities |
Stall (v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on |
Stall (v. t.) To forestall |
Stall (v. t.) To keep close |
Stall (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall |
standdown stand-down | (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action |
one-night stand | a performance in one place on one night only |
Go Fish | a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards |
one-night stand | a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night, he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands |
stand | a defensive effort, the army made a final stand at the Rhone |
ichthyolatry fish-worship | the worship of fish |
stand | a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance, a one-night stand |
stall stalling | a tactic used to mislead or delay |
Little Bighorn Battle of Little Bighorn Battle of the Little Bighorn Custer's Last Stand | a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (), Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull, Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command |
soft-finned fish malacopterygian | any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
fish family | any of various families of fish |
fish genus | any of various genus of fish |
cypriniform fish | a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes |
cyprinid cyprinid fish | soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales |
buffalo fish buffalofish | any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley |
striped killifish mayfish may fish Fundulus majalis | black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States |
guppy rainbow fish Lebistes reticulatus | small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies, often kept in aquariums |
topminnow poeciliid fish poeciliid live-bearer | small usually brightlyolored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control |
soldierfish soldier-fish | the larger squirrelfishes |
anomalops flashlight fish | fish having a luminous organ beneath eye, of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico |
flashlight fish Photoblepharon palpebratus | fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye |
snipefish bellows fish | small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth |
shrimpfish shrimp-fish | slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates |
jawless vertebrate jawless fish agnathan | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
cartilaginous fish chondrichthian | fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified |
osprey fish hawk fish eagle sea eagle Pandion haliaetus | large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years |
merganser fish duck sawbill sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
fish louse | a kind of copepod |
fish fly fish-fly | similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly, larvae are used as fishing bait |
basket star basket fish | any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc |
fish | any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills, the shark is a large fish, in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish |
game fish sport fish | any fish providing sport for the angler |
food fish | any fish used for food by human beings |
rough fish | any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
young fish | a fish that is young |
bony fish | any fish of the class Osteichthyes |
crossopterygian lobefin lobe-finned fish | any fish of the order Crossopterygii, most known only in fossil form |
catfish siluriform fish | any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth |
silurid silurid fish | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin |
crucifix fish | sea catfish of the Caribbean area |
gadoid gadoid fish | a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae |
grenadier rattail rattail fish | deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail |
teleost fish teleost teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei |
clupeid fish clupeid | any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas |
lizardfish snakefish snake-fish | tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads, found worldwide |
lancetfish lancet fish wolffish | large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail |
handsaw fish | a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus |
goosefish angler anglerfish angler fish monkfish lotte allmouth Lophius Americanus | fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |