fish

1. n. A counter, used in various games. Source: opted

2. pl. of Fish Source: opted

3. n. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. n. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces. Source: opted

6. n. The flesh of fish, used as food. Source: opted

7. n. A purchase used to fish the anchor. Source: opted

8. n. A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. Source: opted

9. v. i. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. Source: opted

10. v. i. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Source: opted

11. v. t. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. Source: opted

12. v. t. To search by raking or sweeping. Source: opted

13. v. t. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

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