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An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), Taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

he common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

caisson or a cofferdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.

A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

ght of feeding beasts on the land of another. Burill. -- Common of piscary, the right of fishing in waters belonging to another. -- Common of turbary, the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.

One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

A fish. See Cony.

A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.

n carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.

The state of being contracted; narrowness; meannes; selfishness.

An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

ropriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

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.

which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects. -- Coral fish. See in the Vocabulary. -- Coral reefs (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as fringin…

A fish; the goldsinny.