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noun

Fisher n.

One who fishes.

(Zool.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."

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Etymology of 'Fisher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fisher" Quotes from Famous Books

... industry, a storehouse of curious if not of precious relics, and a warning for other than fair women—or fair scholars—to remember where "it is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil and the painter with ...

— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... mention Fisher, the sub-editor of The New Yorker, and, in his own estimation, the most important person upon that journal. He was what might be called a literary fop, and was much given to the production of highly-wrought, Byronic poems and sketches. I remember hearing that some one ...

— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland

... Had Lord Fisher's death occurred before the proofs were finally passed for press, certain references to that great servant of the State ...

— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

... the dead we were surprised to find multitudes of people strolling about the town. Of all that motley throng we met with no one save a solitary fisher out on the rocks, from which such glorious vistas of the sea may be had. Then we recalled how few there were who witnessed the wonderful pageant of the dawn. Surely influences of nature so beautiful and profound should touch our feeble hopes and lowly ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... sons of Luebeck, Christian and Henry Northoff, who lodged with one Augustine Vincent, were his pupils. He composed beautiful letters for them, witty, fluent and a trifle scented. At the same time he taught two young Englishmen, Thomas Grey and Robert Fisher, and conceived such a doting affection for Grey as to lead to trouble with the youth's guardian, a Scotchman, by whom ...

— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga

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