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 yxuv> " the elbow ; " in Latin Angulus. 

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