(n.) A counter, used in various games.
(pl. ) of Fish
(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of
diverse characteristics, living in the water.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to
strengthen a mast or yard.
(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish,
by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to
draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a
stream.
(v. t.) 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.
