358 DOGFISH— EEL 



urlaic'h, dulla^; Fio^ach ; Goba«r, ^oibean ; Learg or lear-mliadadh 

 or mhadaidh ; Morgan, murgan, inurlacli, murloch, mur-laoch 

 (young). 



Basking shark, bastard-rig, Heaunmris shark, blin* e'es, blind- 

 fish, bone-dog, bounce, bull-lmss (spotted) ; Catfish, counce, culver- 

 hound, cur-fish ; Daggar, dawfish, dogga (piked), dogger-fish, 

 doke-fyche (A. S.), dolfish (lesser) ; Fox-shark ; Gabbuck, 

 gobbock (piked); Heckla, ho, hoe, hoe-fish (piked), hull-cock, 

 hund, hund-fish, huss ; Kennett, king-fish ; Land-dog, long-tailed 

 shark ; Miller's dog, morgay, morgy, morgye, morse hound, 

 inurgy ; Nurse-hound (large spotted) ; Penny-dog, picked or piked 

 dog, pricked or prickled dog; Ray-mouthed dog; requiem, requin 

 (white), robin-huss, rochier, rock-dog, rough-hound, row-hound ; 

 Sail-fish, sea dog fox or nurse, skittle-dog, smooth hound, hound- 

 fish or murloch (unprickly), spear, spined dog, spur, spotted dog 

 or bounce, sun-fish, suss (1. of Wight) ; Thresher. 



The English terms procured for this scourge of the seas are, 

 to say the least of it, varied, and seem to be misplaced. They 

 have all been got as bona-fide names, however, and are given for 

 what they are worth. A quondam superstitious cure for toothache 

 was a piece of the backbone. See Campbell's Tales, Vol. II L, 

 pages 344, etc., for the tale as to how the dogfish (dallag) came 

 to be called the king's fish. This fish, also called by sailors and 

 fishermen the Nurse, used formerly to be much esteemed : a laird of 

 Clan Ranald indeed kept a man whose only duty it was to catch 

 them. 



Cho dall ri dallag. 



As blind as a dogfish. All dogfish are not blind, though 

 certainly dull-sighted. 



DORY (see Haddock). 



DRAGONET (see Gurnard). 



EEL. — As-chu (conger) ; Bior-bhuafan bhuasach or bhusan, 

 bullach ; Cairbeil, carran, carran-creige, carnag, creagag, cullach ; 

 Deal, deala, dealan, deal-tholl (?) ; Eas, easan, easann, easca, 

 eascann, eas-con, eas-cu or chu, easga, easgan, easgann, easgann- 

 faragaidh, easg-shuileach, easgunn, easgunn-mhara, easmunn ; 

 Gealag, gealog, gioban (sand), gobag, goibean, goibin (sand) ; 

 Siolag, siolagag, siolagaig, siol-ghobach (sand). 



Ael (A. S.) ; Brawat, brawet, bulloch (connor), bumble-bunner 

 (conger) ; Clizzard, collach (broad-nosed), conger, connor, cullach, 

 cunger (A. S.), cungyr, cungyre ; Eelat, eelator (small — North), 



