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Fish

noun

(pl. fish, fishes)

Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills. "In the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

The flesh of fish used as food. "After the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat" , "They have a chef who specializes in fish"

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces. Synonym: Pisces.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20. Synonyms: Pisces, Pisces the Fishes.

verb

(past & past part. fished; pres. part. fishing)

Seek indirectly. Synonym: angle.

Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish.

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"Fish" Quotes from Famous Books

... the manner of using them. Some are stationary, fixed to poles in the sea or the estuaries of rivers; some are dropped in a straight line into the water, and allowed to remain there suspended until a shoal of fish, endeavouring to pass, become entangled one by one in the meshes; others are shot in a semicircular form into the sea, and immediately drawn back by both extremities simultaneously ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... himself to be altogether angry with Tifto. There was no doubt that the horse's present condition was due entirely to Tifto's care. Tifto spent in these few days just before the race the greatest part of his time in the close vicinity of the horse, only running up to London now and then, as a fish comes up to the surface, for a breath of air. It was impossible that Lord Silverbridge should separate himself from the Major,—at any rate till after the ...

— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope

... the nose down to hold his speed and began sagging down a long slope toward the channel. He scanned the choppy sea for signs of a British patrol boat. Several of the fast rescue boats should be patrolling the flight line, ready to fish Yank pilots and crewmen out of the water. He saw no ...

— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery

... rock island. Its houses cluster on a little terrace near the bottom of the hill, which rises behind it as a fine background. Steps of rock lead up the stony slope from the water's edge to the houses. In every yard mattings are laid, upon which little white fish are drying. As they walk through the streets or stand talking together, the men are ever tatting at nets; long lines of net-cord are reeled out for many yards along the wayside; hundreds of feet of seines are hung out in the sun to dry. The houses, ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... Mark Wylder,' said Uncle Lorne; 'his face comes up like a white fish within a fathom of the top—it makes me laugh. That's the way they keep holiday. Can you tell by the sky when it is holiday ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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