sculp (skulp)

[ The legs, or flippers, and also the head, are then drawn out from the inside, and the skin is laid out flat and entire, with the layer of fat or blubber firmly adhering to it; and the skin in this state is called the "pelt," and sometimes the sculp . Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 480, sculper (skul'pėr), n. See scorper. sculpin, skulpin (skul'pin), n. 1. A callionymoid fish, Callionymus lyra, having at the angle of the pre operculum a strong compre ed dentate spine; a dragonet: more fully called yel low sculpin. See dragonet, 2, and cut under Cal lionymus. 2. A mean or mischief-making fellow. [Local slang, New Eng.] Ye see the miser'ble sculpin thought I'd never stop to open the goods. Sarah O. Jewett , Deep haven, p. 88. 3. A cottoid fish, especially of the genus Cot tus (or A can tho cottus ), as C. scorpius of the northern Atlantic; C. grænlandicus, the daddy sculpin; C. æneus, the grubby grubby of the New England and New York coasts. One of the commonest on the Atlantic coast of the United States is C. octodecim spinosus. All these fishes are of ugly aspect, unshapely, with very large spiny head, wide mouth, comparatively slender tapering body, and irregularly mottled coloration. They inhabit the northern seas, and are especially numerous in the northern Pacific. They are used by the native Indians as food, but are generally held in contempt by the IMG:content-0404.png:[graphic] sculpin Common Daddy-sculpin ( Cottus grænlandicus). whites. In California a marketable cottoid, the bighead or cabezon, Scorpænichthys marm or at us, is also called scul pin. 4. A hemitripteroid fish, Hemitripterus acadia nus, occurring in deeper water than the true seulpins off the northeastern coast of America. Also called deep- water sculpin, yellow sculpin, and sea -raven. See cut under sea - raven.-5. A scorpænoid fish, Scorpæna guttata, of the southern Californian coast, there called scorpene. See cut under Scorpæna.