ALPHABET OF SCIENTIFIC 

 ANGLING. 



THE WORD ANGLING. 



" ANGLING " differs from Fishing as that which is 

 particular differs from what is general ; for as fishing 

 means the catching of fish, whatever may be the 

 method adopted, " Angling" restricts this to the method 

 of hooking only, and, of course, excludes fishing with 

 spears, nets, or nooses, and every other method in 

 which hooks are not used. 



The word " Angle 1 , " indeed, which originally meant 

 anything bent, so as to form a corner like the human 

 elbow, came in process of time, to signify a hook, and, 

 from that, to give origin to the term "'Angling," which 

 literally, therefore, must signify hooking, or the art of 



(1) In Greek O.JKUV " the elbow ; " in Latin Angulus. 



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