Word Meanings - DONAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A canelike grass of southern Europe , used for fishing rods, etc.

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• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• FISHHAWK
  The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
• FISH-TAIL
  Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• FISHWIFE
  A fishwoman.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• FISHINESS
  The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• GRASS
  An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are
• FISH-TACKLE
  A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.
• FISHMONGER
  A dealer in fish.
• GRASSY
  1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. 2. Resembling grass; green.
• FISHERY
  The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. Abbott. (more info) 1. The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison. 2. A place for catching fish.
• GRASS TREE
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large
• FISH
  A counter, used in various games.
• GRASSHOPPER
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididæ and Locustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in
• FISHFUL
  Abounding with fish. "My fishful pond." R. Carew.
• FISHING
  1. The act, practice, or art of one who fishes. 2. A fishery. Spenser.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• BONEFISH
  See LADYFISH
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• MUFFISH
  Stupid; awkward.
• TIFFISH
  Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• DOGFISH
  1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked,
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• ELFISHLY
  In an elfish manner.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• BILLFISH
  A name applied to several distinct fishes: The garfish and allied species. The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast . The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. The American fresh-water
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• SANDFISH
  A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America which buries itself in the sand.