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Fish
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
(2):
(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(3):
(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
(4):
(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
(5):
(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
(6):
(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
(7):
(v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
(8):
(n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
(9):
(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
(10):
(pl.) of Fish
(11):
(n.) A counter, used in various games.
(12):
(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
(13):
(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
(14):
(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fish'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/fish.html. 1828.
