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fish; including the bag net, casting net, drag net, landing net, seine, shrimping net, trawl, etc. -- Fishing rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling. -- Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing. -- Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing, as hook, line, rod, etc…

r dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. Official formalism. Sir H. Rawlinson.

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.

To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.

e body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

t. -- Gypsy winch, a small winch, which may be operated by a crank, or by a ratchet and pawl through a lever working up and down.

An owl of India (Ninox scutellatus). -- Hawk's bill (Horology), the pawl for the rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.

Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. "An hieroglyphical scrawl." Sir W. Scott.

e sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. [Colloq. U.S.]

eedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

acon. Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. Rawle.

Lawless. [Obs.] Shak.

A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. [New Eng.]

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.] They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. Hudibras.

Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] Chaucer. But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. Acts xvii. 5. Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. Southey .…

is preferred to the other. Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. J. A. Symonds.

Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak.