Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any salt-water or marine fish.
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Examples
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They prove, in three points and by antitheses, that ladies who lay a little carmine upon their cheeks, will be the eternal objects of the eternal vengeances of the Eternal; that Polyeuctus and Athalia are works of the demon; that a man who, for two hundred crowns a day, causes his table to be furnished with fresh sea-fish during
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The Frith of Clyde, on the other side of the hill, supplies us with mullet, red and grey, cod, mackarel, whiting, and a variety of sea-fish, including the finest fresh herrings I ever tasted.
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To finish with the zoology: the fifteen kinds of sea-fish which
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When doubt was expressed as to the possibility of sea-water and sea-fish getting up so far “on top” and it was suggested — “What you think, that old man humbug you?”
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For their march was through an uncultivated country whose inhabitants fared hardly, possessing only a few sheep, and those of a wretched kind, whose flesh was rank and unsavory, by their continual feeding upon sea-fish.
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The phycis also changes its hue: in general it is white, but in spring it is mottled; it is the only sea-fish which is said make a bed for itself, and the female lays her spawn in this bed or nest.
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In the latter expression, Sallust, as in chap. 20 (_maria extruuntur_), alludes to the formation of immense basins in the interior of the country, into which the water was conducted from the sea, for the purpose of keeping in them sea-fish and oysters.
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We should think that the beginning of August would be the best time for this loch as regards sea-fish; but the trout-fishing in July is unsurpassable.
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The sea-fish come into our rivers in March and continue the end of September.
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He, poor man, did not know that they were sea-fish, but his wife did.
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