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The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.

A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.

One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.

Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidæ, Serranidæ, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches. Black perch. (a) The black bass. (b) The flasher. (c) The sea bass. -- Blue perch, the cunner. -- Gray perch, the fresh-water drum. -- Red perch, the rosefish.…

A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.

To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.

e true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species. Lemon, or French, sole (Zoöl.), a European species of sole (Solea pegusa). -- Smooth sole (Zoöl.), the megrim.

of or pertaining to the Sparidæ, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream. -- n.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

A native or inhabitant of Troy. Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed. Finnegan's Wake (Irish song)

To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith.

A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns. [Written also Uigrian.]

Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright- colored.