finny

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"That looks like dinner," thought Jack with a chuckle, as he also dipped his hand to grope for the finny delicacies.

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  1. adjective Having a fin or fins.
  2. adjective Resembling a fin; finlike.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or full of fish.

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  • Spring, with its cowslips and primroses, and hawthorn blossoms, found us rambling through the woods and fields, and angling for the finny tribe disporting in the purling waters of the crystal Avon. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shakspere, by Colonel John A. Joyce
  • Lindalu wrote: where is everyone? finny, bj, sugar, chicky, phroggy, bethi, mousie, snag? has anyone heard from Carmen? —  Stuff On My Cat Feed
  • Threesenough wrote: hmmm, finny is inspiring all of us. —  Stuff On My Cat Feed
  • An osprey was circling in the air, with his eye bent on the water below, watching for his finny prey; and a pair of bald eagles (_Haliaetus leucocephalus_) were winging their way towards the adjacent mainland. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
  • Here was a grand, natural fish pool, and I soon turned it into a comfortable home for my finny captures First at low tide I cleared the bottom of this pool, and made it deeper. —  Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles
 

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