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- English Word Fiscal Definition A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
- English Word Fiscal Definition The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
- English Word Fisetic Definition Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.
- English Word Fisetin Definition A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid.
- English Word Fish Definition A counter, used in various games.
- English Word Fish Definition of Fish
- English Word Fish Definition A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
- English Word Fish Definition 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.
- English Word Fish Definition The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
- English Word Fish Definition The flesh of fish, used as food.
- English Word Fish Definition A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- English Word Fish Definition A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
- English Word Fish Definition To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
- English Word Fish Definition To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
- English Word Fish Definition To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
- English Word Fish Definition To search by raking or sweeping.
- English Word Fish Definition To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
- English Word Fish Definition 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.
- English Word Fish-bellied Definition Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail.
- English Word Fish-block Definition See Fish-tackle.
- English Word Fish-tackle Definition A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.
- English Word Fish-tail Definition Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
- English Word Fished Definition of Fish
- English Word Fisher Definition One who fishes.
- English Word Fisher Definition A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."
- English Word Fisheries Definition of Fishery
- English Word Fisherman Definition One whose occupation is to catch fish.
- English Word Fisherman Definition A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
- English Word Fishermen Definition of Fisherman
- English Word Fishery Definition The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.