| • | 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. |
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