Fish

A counter, used in various games.

of Fish

A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

The flesh of fish, used as food.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

To search by raking or sweeping.

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish"