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 |
Bait (v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net. |
Bait (v. i.) Anything which allures |
Bait (v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey |
Bait (v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon. |
Bait (v. t.) To provoke and harass |
Bait (v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road |
Bait (v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. |
Bait (v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey. |
Bait (v. i.) To flap the wings |
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 |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish (pl. ) of Crayfish |
Fine (superl.) Finished |
Fine (superl.) Aiming at show or effect |
Fine (superl.) Nice |
Fine (superl.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy |
Fine (superl.) Not gross |
Fine (superl.) Not coarse |
Fine (superl.) Not thick or heavy |
Fine (superl.) Thin |
Fine (superl.) Made of fine materials |
Fine (superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition |
Fine (superl.) (Used ironically.) |
Fine (a.) To make fine |
Fine (a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. |
Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations |
Fine (n.) End |
Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute |
Fine (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. |
Fine (n.) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. |
Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law |
Fine (v. i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b). |
Fine (v. t.) To finish |
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 |
bait and switch | a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
bait casting | the single-handed rod casting of a relatively heavy (artificial) bait |
Go Fish | a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards |
ichthyolatry fish-worship | the worship of fish |
turn good turn | a favor for someone, he did me a good turn |
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 |
crowbait crow-bait | an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows |
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 |
oyster fish oyster-fish oysterfish | a variety of toadfish |
sargassum fish | small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum |