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[ Eng.share, and wort.] Bot.: Aster tripolium . shark, s . [Latin car char us = a kind of dogfish, from Greek karcharias = a kind of shark, so called from its sharp or jagged teeth, from karcharos = jagged.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 1. 2. Figuratively: (1) A greedy, artful fellow; one who fills his pockets by sly tricks. "The sharks in your profe ion are always alert and on the scent." -Southey: Letters , iv. 457. *(2) Trickery, roguery, fraud. "Wretches who live upon the shark , and other men's sins, the common poisoners of youth."-South: Sermons, ii. 214. II. Technically : 1. Ichthy.: The English popular name for any individual of the group Selachoidei (q.v.). The body is generally elongated; the muzzle, on the under side of which the nostrils are placed, projects over the mouth, and the males have claspers (with the function of intromittent organs) attached IMG:content-1314.png:[blocks in formation] "Each member sharing in the common profit or lo in proportion to his share in this stock."- Smith : Wealth of Nations , bk. v., ch, i. 4. A part or portion of a thing owned by a number in common; that part of an undivided interest which belongs to each proprietor, as shares in a railway or other company.