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An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean.

See Sailfish (a)

A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling. [Colloq. Eng.] Dickens.

A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

Stiff; harsh. [Obs.] Ascham.

The dollar fish, or butterfish.

Somewhat stiff.

The weever.

Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.

A sucker fish.

A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

The wolf fish.

A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of…

The common harbor seal. [Prov. Eng.]