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A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

ody which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

tlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

A bag-shaped net for catching fish.

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

om one arm, the mutual attraction of oppositely electrified surfaces. Knight. -- Balance fish. (Zoöl) See Hammerhead. -- Balance knife, a carving or table knife the handle of which overbalances the blade, and so keeps it from contact with the table. -- Balance of power. (Politics), such an adjustment of power among…

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidæ. See Filefish.

To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.

Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner. Banner fish (Zoöl.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (H. Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.