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frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

A fisherman who uses a dragnet. Sir M. Hale.

used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak. You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak.

A fishery. Spenser.

Forward. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. Burrill.

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

Dirt; mud. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

To feel compunction or grief. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyons brooding on a winter sea. Dryden.

ed for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

Incapable of being narrated; indescribable; ineffable. [Obs.] "Inenarrable goodness." Bp. Fisher.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.

To intermeddle; to intermix. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

ropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant.

emen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. A braver soldier never couched lance. Shak.

(Zoöl.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena. -- Laughing jackass (Zoöl.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera. -- Laughing owl (Zoöl.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its no…

To allege; to assert. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.