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fishes
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fish \Fish\, n.; pl. Fishes (f[i^]sh"[e^]z), or collectively, Fish . [OE. fisch, fisc, fis, AS. fisc; akin to D. visch, OS. & OHG. fisk, G. fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk, Goth. fisks, L. piscis, Ir. iasg. Cf. Piscatorial . In some cases, such as fish ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. seek indirectly; "fish for compliments" [syn: angle ] catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends" [also: fishes (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of fish nodot=1 English) 2 # (context universal English) ''multiple kinds of fish'' 3 # (context usually nonstandard or archaic English) ''multiple aquatic, cold-blooded, vertebrate animals'' vb. (en-third-person singular of: fish )
Usage examples of fishes.
Have you sufficiently observed the wonders it covers, its fishes, its zoophytes, its parterres of sponges, and its forests of coral?
Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land.
If we do NOT know them all--if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
Border-burns still manage to toss out some dozens of tiny fishes, some six or eight to the pound.
Let us not grudge him his sport as long as he fishes fair, and he is always good company.
Clearburn alone remains full of unsophisticated fishes, and I have the less hesitation in revealing this, because I do not expect the wanderer who may read this page to be at all more successful than myself.
Rome as the Romans do, and fishes for salmon in Tweed when the nets are off in October, when the yellowing leaves begin to fall, and when that beautiful reach of wooded valley from Elibank to the meeting of Tweed and Ettrick is in the height of its autumnal charm.
Then he was one with the fishes who were, and had always been, his destiny.
Mealy, unpalatable fishes the like of which I have never before heard, with names like monkfish, cusk and hagfish.
To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five feet should be marshalled among WHALES--a word, which, in the popular sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness.
The light came from ornaments that hung from the edges of the awning: chains of bronze, which ended in little flat fishes and birds.
He thinks of the loaves and fishes even when he believes his is in a real Presence.
These fishes, like the tortoise, the armadillo, the sea-hedgehog, and the Crustacea, are protected by a breastplate which is neither chalky nor stony, but real bone.
I noticed that in the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean there existed a certain number of fishes of a kind perfectly identical.
The species of fishes here did not differ much from those already noticed.