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A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.

t yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. Shak.

Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules. They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringent code of procedure. Macaulay. -- Strin"gent*ly, adv. -- Strin"gent*ness, n.

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Obs.] Bailey.

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Prov. Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. -- Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium). (b) One of the small black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone. -- Wild tamarind (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Sout…

ensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.

suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebræ.

A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.

The codfish. Called also tusk.

An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. Mark vii. 13.

le or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter. [U. S. & Canada]

The crocodile bird. The crocodile . . . opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding. Sir T. Herbert.

The crocodile bird, or trochil.

The crocodile bird.

easts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. Acts x. 12. (Geneva Bible). This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements. Holland.

A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.

To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose. [Colloq.]