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A counter, used in various games. |
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of Fish |
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A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of
diverse characteristics, living in the water. |
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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. |
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The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces. |
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The flesh of fish, used as food. |
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A purchase used to fish the anchor. |
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A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to
strengthen a mast or yard. |
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To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish,
by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. |
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To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to
draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. |
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To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. |
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To search by raking or sweeping. |
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To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a
stream. |
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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. |
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