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A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

er ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

The spiny dogfish.

A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).

in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. -- Horse hoe, a kind of cultivator.

as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.

The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.

Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. [Obs.] Shak. Picked dogfish. (Zoöl.) See under Dogfish. -- Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red.

Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.

e, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.

The dogfish.

skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.

e shark, Oil shark, Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking, Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish, Notidanian, and Tope. -- Gray shark, the sand shark. -- Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead. -- Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont. -- Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse. -- Shark ray. Same…

The piked dogfish.

A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, or Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.

Air impregnated with an odor or scent. A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. Swift.