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A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

f the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane.

Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.

To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

of 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 Hu…

bs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herring…

A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

e bug (Zoöl.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.

A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed. [Written also escrod.] [Local, U.S.]

A knife used in splitting codfish. [Written also spalding knife.]

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

A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.

The codfish. Called also tusk.

A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.