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Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes. -- n.

other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.

A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.

Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known. See Darter.

The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera).

The candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish.

An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

. Capable of being excoriated. The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable. Sir T. Browne.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.

The catch of fish on a fishing vessel. Bill of fare. See under Bill. -- Fare indicator or register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. -- Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it.…

one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.