Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the kinds of fish called dogfish.

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Examples

  • 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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