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Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.

Fossil dung of fishes.

One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

A treatise on fishes.

Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.

An oily substance prepared by the dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.

Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. Layard.

A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.

Of or pertaining to ichthyology.

One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoölogy which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

The Urodela.

Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.

One who eats, or subsists on, fish.

Eating, or subsisting on, fish.

The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.

See Apophyllite. [R.]

A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.

A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.