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A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.

lose to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or game, when they should not be killed. -- Rail fence, a fence made of rails, sometimes supported by posts. -- Ring fence, a fence which encircles a large area, or a whole estate, within one inclosure. -- Worm fence, a zi…

side by side as in a common double block. Knight. -- Fiddle bow, fiddlestick. -- Fiddle fish (Zoöl.), the angel fish. -- Fiddle head, an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the volute or scroll at the head of a violin. -- Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin. -- Sc…

A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.

e issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoöl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish (Zoöl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…

Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.

A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.

A fishing spear. [Obs.] Sandys.

hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husba…

A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).

urface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes.

table; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species.