fish-fall 
fish-fall (fish'fal), H. \aiit., the fall of the fish- 
tackle. Src fixli-lnckle. 
fish-farm (fish'farm), H. A place where fish- 
breeding or pisciculture is carried on. 
fish-farmer (fish'far"mer), H. A pisciculturist. 
fish-farming (fish'far'mmg), . Pisciculture. 
fish-flake (lish'tlak). H. 1. The sound or swim- 
bladder of a fish. 2. A frame, rack, or open 
stage on which cod and other salted tish are 
dried. See flake"*. 
There were a few old buildings, . . . some dilapidated 
fish-houses, and a row of fish-flakes. 
S. 0. Jewett, Deephaveu, p. 224. 
fish-flour (fish 'flour), . 1. A flour-like sub- 
stance made from fish. 
Biscuits made fru\n fish-fioitr, apreparation invented by 
the late Auton Kosing, a prominent agricultural chemist 
of Norway, . . . were in good condition after having been 
kept for ten years in an unsealed jar. 
(jrfiode, Menhaden, p. 141. 
2. A dry inodorous fertilizer made from fishes, 
used for manure. 
fish-food (fish'fod), n. 1. The food eaten by 
fishes. 2. Food consisting of fish. 
fish-fork (fish'fork), . A pitchfork with a short 
handle and 2 or 3 tines, used in pitching fish 
into or out of a boat or vessel. 
fish-freezer (fish'fre'zer), n. An establishment 
for freezing fish. In the building in which fish are fro- 
zen the required degree of cold is commonly produced by 
mixing ice and salt and tilling in the mixture between gal- 
vanized iron plates in contact with the fish. 
fishfult (fish'ful), a. [< fish 1 + -ful.-] Abound- 
ing with fish. 
Britaine is watered with pleasant fishfull and navigable 
riuers, which yeeld safe havens and roads, and furnished 
with shipping and sailers that it may rightly be termed 
the Lady of the Sea. Cainden, Remains, Britain. 
Yet Groin and Neyern near, two fine and fishfttl brooks, 
Do never stay their course. Drayton, Polyolbion, v. 351. 
fish-fungus (fish'fung'gus), re. 1. A peculiar 
red fungus, Clathrocystis roseopersicina, fre- 
quently found on salted codfish in midsummer 
where the temperature is high. 2. A fungus, 
Saprolegnia ferax, which attacks living fishes, 
especially salmon, causing great destruction. 
It also occurs in aquariums. 
fish-garth (fish'garth). . A garth or weir on a 
river, or on the sea-shore, for the taking and 
retaining of fish. Also fish-weir. [Eng.] 
fishgig (fish'gig), H. [Also fizgig, by confusion 
with fiyig 1 ', < fish 1 + gig%.~\ An instrument 
used for striking fish ; a grain. It usually con- 
sists of a staff with barbed prongs, and a line 
fastened above the prongs. 
The next day, seeking to kill them with figpigs, they 
strucke so many the water in many places was red with 
blond. Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 121. 
fish-globe (fish'glob), n. A spherical glass ves- 
sel in which fish are kept, 
fish-glue (fish'glo), n. Glue made from fishes; 
isinglass White fish-glue, isinglass dissolved in al- 
cohol. 
fish-god (fish'god), n. In myth., a deity or su- 
pernatural powerhaving the form and attributes 
of a fish, either wholly or in part, as Dagon, a 
divinity of the Philistines, or the Triton of the 
Greeks. See cut under Dagon. 
fish-goddess (fish'god'es), n. In myth., a fe- 
male deity or supernatural power having the 
form and attributes of a fish, either wholly or 
in part, as the Atargatis of the Philistines. 
Derketo became a flsh near Ascalon ; a fish-goddess iden- 
tified with her was worshipped in Syria, and the fish sa- 
cred to her were not eaten. Jincyc. Brit., XV. 90. 
fish-guano (fish'gwa/no), n. Same as fish-ma- 
nure. 
fish-hawk (fish'hak), n. The American name 
of Pandion hnliaetus, the osprey, bald buzzard, 
or fishing-eagle. See osprey. 
fish-hook (fish'huk), n. 1. A hook for catch- 
ing fish. 
The days shall come upon you, that lie will take you 
away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. 
Amos iv. 2. 
2. A hook used with a fish-tackle. See fish- 
tackle. 
fish-husbandry (fish'huz"ban-dri), . Fish- 
farming. 
fishify (fish'i-fi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. fishificd, 
ppr. fishifying. [< Jfefcl + -i-fy, make.] To 
change to fish. [Humorous.] 
O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified ! 
Shak., R. and J., ii. 4. 
fishiness (fish'i-nes), . [< fishy + -ness.'] The 
state or quality of being fishy, in any sense of 
that word. 
Its llesh has much the flavour of that of a hare, and no- 
thing of the fishiness of that of the heron. 
Pennant, Zoology. 
2237 
fishing (fish'ing), ii. [< WE.fixcliiiif/c, etc.; ver- 
bal u. of fish 1 , ('.] 1. The art or practice of 
catching fish. 
Cleopatra found it straight, yet she seemed not to see it, 
but wondered at his excellent /ix/mc/. 
\rHi, tr. of 1'lutareh, ]). 704. 
2. A fishery ; a place or facilities for catching 
fish: as, there is good. fishing there. 
At the ende of the eanehie was a grete water, but ther- 
to com no shippes, but it was right I'eire and plesaimt, and 
good /w/i i </'!. Merlin (R. K. T. S.), iii. 004. 
In a Lauresham record, ... we have an undivided 
share of the fishing in Edingero inarca given to the church 
of St. Nazarins. L>. \\'. lions, (jerman Land-holding, p. 45. 
Bait-fishing, fishing with bait, as distinguished from 
fishing with artificial flies or the like. Bony fishing, the 
menhaden-fishery. [Slang.] Reef-fishing, tithing on or 
from coral reefs. (Florida, U. S.] Rip-fishing, fishing 
in rippliugs or tide-rips, as for pollack. For this purpose 
the vessel is kept under easy sail, the lines being attached 
to poles about seven feet long, which project from the sides 
of the vessel. 
fishing-banks (fish'ing-bangks), n. pi. A fish- 
ing-ground of comparatively shoal water in the 
sea. Thus, on the Atlantic coast of North America the 
Banks of Newfoundland are a famous fishing-ground, and 
another, about 20 miles off Cape May, is well known. 
fishing-boat (fish'ing-bot), . A boat used in 
fishing ; also, a small fishing-vessel. 
fishing-duck (fish'ing-duk), n. See duclfl. 
fishing-eagle (fish'ing-e"gl), n. Same as osprey. 
fishing-float (fish'ing-flot), . A raft or scow 
with a small house on it designed to be floated 
and anchored wherever desired for use in fish- 
ing. A plank apron is let down from the edge to the 
bottom of the water, and over this, as upon an artificial 
shore, a seine is hauled by a windlass worked by horse- or 
steam-power. Fishing-floats are often clustered like a 
floating village, and the fishermen unite for large opera- 
tions. They are peculiar to the mouth of the Snsquehanna 
river and the neighboring region. [U. S.] 
fishing-frog (fish'ing-frog), n. The angler, a 
fish, Lniihius piscatorins. See devil-fish. 
fishing-hawk (fish'ing-hak), . Same asosprey. 
fishing-line (fish'ing-lln). n. 1. A line used 
with nooks and bait in catching fish ; a fish- 
line. 2. In zool., one of sundry simple elon- 
gated or extensile tentacular parts of some com- 
pound organisms, as the Siplionophora, provided 
with special urticating organs, thread-cells, or 
nematocysts. Gegenbanr. AlsograppUng-line. 
fishing-net (fish'ing-net), n. Same as fish-net. 
The waste and lumber of the shore, 
Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
fishing-out (fish'ing-ouf), . The removal of 
fish from a fish-pond; the "drawing" of a 
pond : as, the fishing-oiit of a carp-pond, that 
the fish may be placed in market-ponds. 
fishing-place (fish' ing -plas), n. 1. A place 
where fishing is or may be carried on. Specifi- 
cally 2. A prescribed length of shore in 
shore-fishing to which the sweep of a seine is 
limited. Such places are mostly situated on the tidal 
parts of streams and inlets, and can be fished only at cer- 
tain stages of the tide, as during the flood or ebb. The 
most extensive are swept only at the turn of the tide, and 
these are known as slaekieater-hauls. The importance of 
this species of property was early recognized and fostered 
by legislation. Also called pool. [U.S.] 
fishing-room (fish'ing-rom), . A definite por- 
tion of the shore appropriated to the curing 
and storing of fish. [American.] 
My brother tells me that on Sunday, 7th June, there 
was such a terrible storm that some of the fishing vessels 
were driven ashore, and much damage done to the fishing- 
rooms everywhere. 
Quarterly Missionary Leaf, New Harbour Mission, 
[Newfoundland, No. xxxviii., Aug., 1885. 
fishing-swivel (fish'ing-swiv"l), n. A swivel 
used on a fishing-line to prevent it from being 
kinked or snarled by the rapid gyrations of fish 
upon the hooks. The form of the swivel varies. 
fishing-tackle (fish'ing-tak"l), n. An angler's 
outfit; angling-gear; the hooks, lines, rods, and 
other implements of the art of fishing. 
fishing-tube (fish'ing-tub), n. A small glass 
tube for taking up small objects floating in 
water. One end is closed with the finger and the other 
is thrust into the water near the object ; on removing the 
finger the water enters the tube, conveying the object 
with it ; on again closing the top of the tube, the object 
may be lifted with a portion of the water. Also called 
<li/>/i<n?r-tnl>e. 
fish-joint (fish'joint), . In railroads, a splice 
consisting of one or more oblong plates of iron, 
bolted to the side or sides of two rails meeting 
end to end. See fish-plate. 
fish-kettle (fish'kef'l), n. A kettle designed 
to be used for boiling fish whole. 
fish-killer (fish'kil"er), n. A heteropterous 
insect of the genus Kelostoma; a large water- 
bug occurring in fresh water, and preying on 
fishes by sucking their blood and juices. 
fish-plate 
fish-knife (fish'nlf), n. A fish-carver. 
fish-ladder (fish'lad"er), w. Same as fishim;/. 
fish-line (fiwli'lin), n. A line used to catch fish. 
fish-louse (fish'lous), . A general name of 
crustacean parasites of fishes. Fish-lice proper 
belong to an order or other group of Critxtacrtt known 
us lf}tlh]i[ihtliiri . siiilittnxlinnfttn , and h'jiizita, of which 
there are many families with numerous genera and species, 
generally epi/.oic or ectuparasitic. They are not confined to 
tishrs proper, being found also on cetaceans, crustaceans, 
and other aquatic animals. Among them are found the 
most monstrous and grotesque forms of crustaceans de- 
graded by parasitism. See cut under Kpizoa. 
fish-manure (fish'ma-nur"), . A manure or 
fertilizer prepared from fish. There are many prepa- 
rations and modes of manufacture. The value is mainly 
due to the preponderance of nitrogenous ami phosphatic 
compounds, these ingredients being furnished more cheap- 
ly by fish-manures than by any other class of fertilizers, 
except Peruvian guano. The crops most benefited by this 
fertilizer are those not specially helped by mineral fertil- 
izers alone, as grass, grain, potatoes, some garden-vege- 
tables, and roots. Asa manure it Is quick and stimulating, 
soon spending its force, and often leaving the soil worse 
than it was before its use. Also called fish-guano. 
fish-market (fish'mar*ket), n. [= D. visch- 
markt = G. fischmarkt.] A market where fishes 
are sold. 
fish-maw (fish'ma), n. The sound or air-blad- 
der of a fish. 
fish-meal (fish'mel), M. 1. A meal of fish; diet 
on fish ; abstemious diet. 
Thin drink doth so over-cool their blood, and making 
many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male green- 
sickness. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 
2. Same as fish-flour. 
fishmonger (fish'mung"ger), H. [< ME. fisch-, 
fyeh-manger (= MLG. vischmenger = G. fisch- 
menger = ODan. fiskemanger); < fish + mon- 
ger.] A seller of fish ; a dealer in fish. 
Pol. Do you know me, my lord ? 
Ham. Excellent, excellent well ; you're a fishmonger. 
Shale., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
fishmoth (fish'moth), n. Same as fishtail. 
fish-net (fish'net), n. A net used to catch 
fish. Fish-nets are divided into two classes : gill-nets, 
in which the flsh iu attempting to pass through the net is 
wedged or jammed in a mesh so that it cannot open its 
gills, when it is soon drowned or is unable to move for- 
ward or backward ; and inclosing-nets, by which the flsh 
is surrounded, as the purse-net, the drag-net, the seine, 
the weir, the casting-net, etc. Nets vary in construction 
from heavy chain oyster-drags to flnelineu-thread herring- 
nets, and they are given a variety of names, according to 
their shape, purpose, or mode of operating. Also fishing- 
net. 
fish-of-Paradise (fish'ov-par'a-dis), . A fish 
of the family Osphromenidw, Macropodus viri- 
Fish-of-Paradise 
(Macrcpodus viridiauratus). \ 
diauratus, so called from the beauty of its col- 
oration. It has been cultivated to some extent 
for exhibition in aquariums. 
fish-oil (fish'oil), n. Oil obtained from the bodies 
of fishes and marine animals, as from whales, 
porpoises, seals, pilchards, sharks' and cods' 
livers, etc. ; specifically, cod-liver oil. Fish-oil 
for medicinal purposes is obtained principally from the 
cod, but also from the pollack, turbot, ling, dorse, etc. 
fish-owl (fish'oul), n. An eared fishing-owl 
with rough feet; a member of thegenus Ketupa. 
fish-packing (fish'pak'ing), n. The act or pro- 
cess of packing or canning fish for the market. 
The fish are taken fresh to the packing-house, where they 
are cleaned, cut, weighed, and put in hermetically sealed 
cans. The cans are placed in large steam-chests, where 
they are left until the flsh are thoroughly cooked. The 
cans are then tested to see if they are air-tight, and are 
labeled. 
fish-pearl (fish'perl), n. An artificial pearl of 
an inferior grade. See the extract. 
In Germany, or rather Saxony, a cheap but inferior qual- 
ity [of artificial pearls] is manufactured. The globe of 
glass forming the pearl in inferior ones being very thin, 
and coated with wax, they break on the slightest pressure. 
They are known by the name of German fish-pearls. 
If re, Diet, III. 518. 
fish-pie (fish'pi'), n. 1. A pie containing fish. 
2. A compost-heap of fish-scrap mixed with 
earth, 
fish-plate (fish'plat), . In railroads, an iron 
plate fitted to the web of a rail, and sometimes 
partly embracing the foot : used in pairs, one 
