fisc (fisk)

[F. fisc = Pr. fisc, fisco = Sp. Pg. It. fisco, or a state. The streams were perennial which fed his fisc. Lamb, Two Races of Men. It had been decided to forbid the Prince bread, water, fire, and shelter; to give his wealth to the fise , his heart to the a a in. Motley, Dutch Republic, III. 494. Its [the United States government's] proper busine as a fisc is to receive the people's revenue from taxes in good money which it has coined for them. Report of Sec. of Treasury , 1886, I. xxxvi. fiscal (fis'kal), a . and n. [= D. fiskaal = Dan. Sw. fiskal , fiscal = Pr. Sp. Pg. fiscal = It. fiscale , fiscal is , of or belonging to the state treasury, fisc us , the state treasury: see fisc.] I. a. 1. Of or pertaining to the public treasury or revenue; relating to or concerned with the collection and expenditure of taxes and customs; pertaining to the financial operations of a government. Whatever amount is taken from the community in the form of taxes, if not lost, goes to them in the shape of expenditures or disbursements. The two-disbursement and taxation - constitute the fiscal action of the government. Calhoun, Works, I. 19. In the taxes imposed by the Parliamentary ordinances we find the germs of our subsequent fiscal system. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, II. 4. Hence-2. Of or pertaining to financial matters in general: as, a fiscal agent. Fiscal lands, among the Franks, lands set apart to form a fund which might support the dignity of the king, and supply him with More meek, came with the firstlings of his flock, the means of rewarding merit and encouraging valor. Choicest and best. Milton, P. L., xi. 437. These, under the name of benefices, were granted to favored subjects, upon the condition that the grantees should render to the king personal service in the field. Fiscal year, the financial year of the treasury of a government; 21. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak ., Macbeth, iv. 1. hence, the period at the end of which the accounts of any IMG:content-1376.png:[blocks in formation] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likene : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. 26. fise2 (fis), n . [Also written fice , fyce , phyce (the origin being forgotten); abbr. of fise - dog .] Same as fise - dog . fise-dog (fis'dog), n. [Also written fice - dog ; fisel (or fist2 reduced to fise before the follow- ing d) + dog . Cf. fisting -hound, of the same sense.] A small spaniel or other pet dog. An obsolete form of visage . fish1 (fish), n.; pl. fishes (fish'ez). (The singu- lar form is generally used for the plural in a collective sense.) [ fisch , fi h , fi , fisc , fisc (pl. fisc as , sometimes transposed fix as ) =OŠ. fisk = OFries. fisk = D. visch = OHG. fisc , MHG. visch , G. fisch = Icel. fiskr = Sw. Dan. fisk = Goth. fisks = W. pysg = Ir. and Gael. iasg , Olr. iasc (with reg. apheresis of p ) = L. piscis (> It. pesce = Sp. pez = Pg. peixe = Pr. pesc = OF. peis , also (dim.) pei on , poi on , F. pois- son), fish.] 1. A vertebrate which has gills and fins adapting it for living in the water. In this sense the word has been and is still largely used as the equivalent of the former extensive cla Pisces , including the lep to card i ans, myzonts, and selachians, as well as true Pisces. But the differences between these several types of structure are so great that the lep to card i ans and my- zonts have been each contrasted with all remaining verte- brates. "Trewlie," quath the frere, "a fol y the holde! Thou woldest not weten thy fote & woldest fich kacchen." Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 405. 3d Fish . Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1st Fish . Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up Shak., Pericles, ii. 1. Either at flesh or fish , A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. Shak ., C. of E., iii. 1. 5. The codfish: so called specifically by Cape Cod and Cape Ann fishermen, in distinction from fish of other kinds, as mackerel, herring, etc. [U. S.] -6. The zodiacal sign Pisces. Now dauncen lusty Venus children dere, For in the fish her [their] lady sat ful hye. 7. Naut .: (a) A purchase used to raise the flukes of an anchor up to the bill-board. Also called a fish - tackle . (b) A long piece of timber or iron used to strengthen a mast or a yard when sprung.-8. In joinery , etc., a piece se- cured alongside of another to strengthen or stiffen it. A big deck of fish, a large fare or catch of fish. [Prince Edward island.] - A cool, a strange, an odd, or a queer fish, a whimsical, odd, or eccentric per- son. [Colloq.] - A loose fish, a person of irregular habits. [Colloq.] - Angler's fish, fish that are angled for; game- fish, as salmon, trout, ba , pike, pickerel, etc. - A pretty kettle of fish. See kettle . Bait-fish. ( a ) Fish used for bait, as the herring, alewife, caplin, sand-lance, smelt, minnow, and other small fish. Squids, clams, etc., are also included. (b) Fish that are or may be caught with bait. -Bank fish, fishes caught on the Banks of Newfound- land: distinguished from shore fish . - Bonele fish, fish as cod, pollack, hake, or cusk - salted and sliced for the market with bones and skins removed: a trade-term.- Bony fish. Same as o eous fish . - Bottom-fish, fishes which live and feed on the bottom, as halibut, flounders, etc.- Brackish-water fish, fishes living at the con- fluence of fresh and salt water. - Broken fish, in New- found land, the third quality of cured codfish, usually re- served for home consumption. - Bunch-fish, small fishes sold in bunches. They include white and yellow perch, catfish, pickerel, suckers, several species of Centrarchida, etc. [U. S.]- Cartilaginous fish, any fish whose skele- ton is entirely or partly cartilaginous, as the lampreys, sel a- chians, and sturgeons. See cut under Acipenser . Christ- mas fish. See Christmas . - Clip-fish, codfish salted and dried in the same manner as the Newfoundland shore- cured cod. Also klip - fish . - Coarse fish, a commercial name for all kinds of fishes except whitefish and trout. [Western U. S.] - Cold-blooded fish, the true fish; those fishes that breathe through gills under water, as dist in- guished from the warm - blooded fish , or cetaceans. - Com- mi ioner of Fish and Fisheries. See commi ioner . - Cooked fish, menhaden steamed in the proce of extract- ing the oil. Deep-sea fish, fishes living at more or le great depths in the sea: thus distinguished from shore and pelagic fish . Emperor-fish. See emperor . Fish and potash-salts, a mixture of fish-scrap with German potash-salts, used as a fertilizer. The potash supplies that quality of a complete fertilizer which is lacking in the fish. - Fish Commi ion. See commi ion1.- Fish day. See fish -day.-Flat-soled fish, in ship - carp ., a fish of which the faying surface is made flat. Fincham , Ship-Building, iv. 64. Foul fish. See foull . - Fresh-water fish, fishes living in fresh water. - Hard fish, prime or first-quality fish: distinguished from soft fish , as the whitefish, mus- calonge, and catfish. [Great Lakes, U. S.]- Mid-water fish, fishes which do not school at the surface nor feed on the bottom, but usually swim about midway between the bottom and the surface, as the weakfish. - Mucous fish, the hags or myxinoids. - Order of the Fish, a decoration founded by the Mogul emperors in India, and conferred upon certain English statesmen in the early part of the nineteenth century. The insignia are of the nature of stan- dards borne before the person upon whom the order is conferred. O eous fish. (a) A teleost or teleostean fish; one of the Teleostei . (b) Fish having a more or le o ified skeleton: thus distinguished from cartilaginous fish . See cut under Esox . - Pelagic fish, a fish of the high sea or open ocean. Ripe fish, fish about to spawn or milt; a spawner or milter; a roe-fish. Rough fish, any fish ex- cept whitefish: a commercial name. [Western U.S.] See coarse fish . Round fish, undre ed fish, as cod. St. George's fish, the common starfish, Asterias vulgar is. Stimpson.- Sea-fish, fishes living in the sea or in salt water.- Shore fish. (a) Fish taken in-shore, as cod, pol- lack, hake, and haddock. [Gloucester, Ma achusetts, U. S.] (b) In ichth . , a fish inhabiting the sea near the shore and in water of moderate depth: thus contrasting with deep - sea fish and pelagic fish . Soft fish. (a) A fisher- men's name for certain fish, as the herring, menhaden, and smelt. (b) The squid or cuttlefish. (Rhode Island, U. S.] Sow fish, a female fish when noticeably larger than the male. [U. S.] - Spent fish, a fish which has lately spawn- ed or milted. Surface-fish, any fish which habitually swims "high," or near the surface of the water, often mak- ing a ripple as it goes. The menhaden is an example.- To be neither fish nor flesh, or neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, to be neither one thing nor another; be a non- descript: sometimes contemptuously said of a waverer or trimmer who belongs to no party or sect. Damned neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh , nor good red-herring. fish1 (fish), v. [ fischen , fi hen, fi en, fiscian = OS. fiskōn = OFries. fiskia = D. vi chen = MLG. vischen = OHG. fisc on , MHG. vischen, G. fischen = Icel. fiskja = Sw. fisk a = Dan. fiske = Goth. fiskōn , fish; = L. piscari , fish; from the noun.) I. in trans. 1. Το catch or attempt to catch fish; be employed in taking fish by any means, as by angling or draw- ing nets. Peter fisched for his fode and his felawe Andrewe; Some the i solde and some the i so the [boiled], and so the i lyued bot he. Piers Plowman (B), xv. 287. He ys a fole afore the nette that fy hes . Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 83. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king. Shak ., Hamlet, iv. 3. 2. To be arranged or adjusted so as to catch fish; be capable of catching fish: as, the net or pound is fishing ; the net was set, but was not fishing ; the net fishes seven feet (that is, seven feet deep). To fish broad, to fish beyond the three-mile limit, as a schooner - that is, beyond the limit inside of which it is unlawful to fish according to the treaty of 1818 between England and the United States. See fishery . ing the joints on opposite sides and to both beams. -To fish out. (a) To exhaust of fish by fishing; over- fish: as, waters barren because fished out . (b) To obtain by careful search or study or by artifice; elicit by pains or stratagem: as, to fish out a meaning from an obscure sentence, a secret from a person, or an admi ion from an adverse witne . You shall see, I have fished out a cunning piece of plot B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 2. The waiter roars it through the hall: We don't give bread with one fish - ball . fish-carver (fish'kärver), n. An implement, usually of silver, resembling rather a large flat spoon or a modified trowel than a knife, used for cutting and serving fish at table. Also called fish - slice , fish - knife , fish - trowel . fish-chowder (fish' chouder), n. A chowder made of fish. The fish most esteemed for the purpose are the cod, sea-ba , and blackfish. fish-chum (fish'chum), n. 1. Fish ground into fine particles and mixed with water to serve the purpose of toll-bait; chum.-2. Same as fish - pomace. fish-coop (fish'köp), n. A box about three feet square used in fishing through ice. There is a hole in its bottom, which is placed over a similar hole in the ice. The fisherman crawls into the box, and, it being quite dark inside, can see to the bottom of the water, into which he lets down a decoy or lure by a string. When fish are attracted by the lure, he spears them. This device is used on lakes in western New York. fish-creel (fish'krēl), n. A wicker basket used by anglers in carrying fish; a fish-basket. fish-crow (fish'kro), n. See crow2. fish-cultural (fish'kultūr-al), a. [ fish - culture + -al .] Pertaining to or interested in fish- culture; piscicultural. [Rare.] The finest private fish - cultural establishment in the world. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 129. fish-culture (fish'kultūr), n. The artificial breeding of fish; pisciculture. fish-culturist (fish kultūr-ist), n. [ fish -cul- ture + -ist.] A fish-breeder; a pisciculturist. The first-honor prize, the gift of the Emperor of Ger- many, was awarded to Profe or Baird as a personal tribute to one who, in the words of the President of the Deutscher Fisc here i Verein, is regarded in Europe as the first fish - culturist in the world. fish-davit (fish'dav"it), n. Naut ., a spar with a roller or sheave at its end, used for fishing the anchor. fish-day (fish'dā), n. [ fi heday , fy he- day ; fish + day .] A day on which fish is eaten customarily, or in conformity with ecclesiastical regulations forbidding the eating of flesh-meat. fish-driver (fish'dri" vėr), n. One of a fisher- men's gang who keeps close to a school of fishes and directs or guides the gang in setting fish-duck (fish'duk), n . See duck2 . fisher (fish'er), n. [ fishere , fisc here , fi h- er, etc., fiscere = OS. fiskari = OFries. fisker = D. vi cher = MLG. vischer = OHG. fiscari , MHG. vischer , G. fischer = Icel. fiskari = Sw . fiskare = Dan. fisker , a fisher (from the verb); = L. piscarius , a., of fish, n. a fishmon- ger ( piscator , a fisher), piscis , a fish.] 1. One whose occupation or sport is the catching of fish; a fisherman. Thu wenest ibeo a beggere, And ihc am a fi ere, Wel feor icome bi este For fi en at thi feste. And [Jesus] saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them. Luke v. 2. The fishermen , that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice. Shak ., Lear, iv. 6. 2. A ve el employed in fishing.-3. The fishing- duck or fish-duck; a merganser. - Fisherman's bend. See bend1, 3.- Fisherman's luck, getting wet and hungry, and catching no fish; poor luck. [Colloq.] Fisherman's ring ( annulus piscator is ), a signet-ring bearing the device of St. Peter fishing. It has been worn by the popes since the thirteenth century, and is used for stamping the papal briefs. Also called fisher -ring and fisheries department should... be primarily under the control of a scientific authority. Science, VII. 432. 2. In law , a right of fishing in certain waters. A common fishery is the right of fishing in the sea and public rivers open to all the public. Encyc . Brit ., IX. 268. Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers . Mark i. 16. The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand. side of the foremast, by the aid of which the anchor is fished. fish-breeder (fish'brē"dèr), n. One who prop a- gates fish artificially; a pisciculturist. fish-breeding (fish'brē ding), n. The act, art, or industry of propagating fish by artificial means; fish-culture; pisciculture. fish-cake (fishʼkāk), n. 1. In cookery , a ball of shredded or chopped fish (especially salt cod- fish) and mashed potatoes, fried. Also fish - ball . -2. The refuse of fishes, from which the oil or glue has been expre ed, taken from the pre es in large circular cakes shaped like a cheese. fish-can (fish'kan), n . 1. A large can of heavy tin or galvanized iron employed by fish-cul- turists in the transportation of live fish.-2. A can used to contain cooked or preserved fish. fish-car (fish'kär), n. 1. A box in which fish which have been caught are kept alive, de- signed to be towed in the water behind a boat. -2. A railroad-car especially constructed and fitted up for the transportation of fish for com- mercial purposes or in the operations of fish- can a dens is of Schreber (1778), the largest quadruped of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Mustelinæ with the exception of the wolverene: so called from its habit of catching fish. It is a kind of marten or sable, peculiar to the northern parts of North America, and quite distinct from any other species. The length fish-fag (fish'fag), n. A woman who sells fish; a fishwife. [Eng.] Who deemed himself of much too high a rank With vulgar fish - fags to be forced to chat. IMG:content-1377.jpg:[graphic] culture. Wolcot ( P. Pindar ).