Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the kinds of fish called
dogfish .
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Examples
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And I can tell you, that this dog-fisher, for so the Latins call him, can smell a fish in the water a hundred yards from him: Gesner says much farther: and that his stones are good against the falling sickness; and that there is an herb, Benione, which, being hung in a linen cloth near a fish-pond, or any haunt that he uses, makes him to avoid the place; which proves he smells both by water and land.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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