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 |
Coral fish
() Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
-fish
(pl. ) of Crayfish |
Dive
(v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost |
Dive
(v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc. |
Dive
(v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water |
Dive
(v. t.) To explore by diving |
Dive
(n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively. |
Dive
(n.) A place of low resort. |
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. |
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 |
Suleah fish
() A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah. |
Tobias fish
() The lant, or sand eel. |