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 |
Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
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 |
Caking coal () See Coal. |
Canal coal () See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal () See Cannel coal. |
Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. |
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter. |
Coal (v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal (v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black (a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish (pl. ) of Crayfish |
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
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. |
Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Lance fish () A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast |