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Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidæ) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. -- n.

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

That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.

e labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

oidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. Ganoid scale (Zoöl.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

A European fish. See 4th Comber.

The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc. GAPES; THE GAPES The gapes.

Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

A European cyprinoid fish; the id.

A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.

A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

Same as Bendlet. Garter fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the genus Lepidopus, having a long, flat body, like the blade of a sword; the scabbard fish. -- Garter king-at-arms, the chief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. -- Garter snake (Zoöl.), one of se…

A dam or weir for catching fish.

A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

A dipterous larva used as fish bait.

A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.