fishweir (fishwer)

Same as fish - garth. fishwife (fish' wif), n.; pl. fishwives (-wivz). A woman who sells fish. fish woman (fish' wuman), n.; pl. fish women (-wim"en). Same as fishwife . fish-wood (fish'wud), n. The strawberry-bush, Euonymus American us . fish-worker (fish'werker), n. A fish-culturist. fish-working (fish' werking), n. Fish-culture; the artificial propagation of fish. fish-works (fish'werks), n. pl. 1. The appliances and contrivances used in fish-culture for the artificial propagation of fish. - 2. A place where the products of the fisheries are utilized for a specific purpose, as the manufacture of oil, guano, etc.; a fish-factory: often used as a singular. fishworm (fish'werm), n. Same as earthworm, 1. fishy (fish'i), a. [ Where are the flowry fields, the fishy streames, The pasturing mountaines, and the fertile plaines? Stirling , Doomes-day, Third Houre. 2. Like fish; having a fish-like quality: as, a fishy taste or smell. And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the fishy part of Dagon was left to him. 1 Sam. v. 4 (margin). Better pleased Than As mode us with the fishy fume, That drove him, though enamour'd, from the sponse Of Tobit's son. Milton , P. L., iv. 168. 3. Extravagant, as a story; dubious or incredible, like many stories told about fishing and fishes. Compare fish - story. [Colloq.] We did not lose a man. This sounds rather fishy ; but they had no artillery. New York Tribune, Nov. 25, 1861. Altogether, the story is too fishy. The American, V. 83. [Early mod. E. also fisnamy , visnomy; fysnamie , phi so no my, etc., phisonomie , phinosomie , philo zomie, F. physionomie = Pr. phizonomia = Sp. (Gr. φυσιογνωμία, late and incorrect form of φυσιογνωμονία, physiognomy: see physiognomy, of which fisnomy (with the mod. abbr. phiz ) is a corrupted form.] 1. The art of judging the character of a person by the countenance or appearance. fisonomía = Pg. physio no mia = It. fisonomia, The childe couthe of fysenamye . Seven Sages , 1. 1072. 2. The face; countenance; appearance; physiognomy (which see). He feyede his fysnamye with his foule hondez, And frappez faste at hys face fersely there-aftyr! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1114. When he [a bear] waz lose, to shake hiz earz twyse or thryse wyth the blud & the slauer aboout his jiznamy, waz a matter of a goodly releef. R. Laneham , Letter from Kenilworth (1575). Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy is more hotter in France than here. Shak ., All's Well, iv. 5. fi ate (fis'āt), a . [ fi us , pp. of findere , cleave (see fi ile ), + -atel .] Fi ured; cleft; split; especially, in entom ., having the apical portion divided or split into two parts. Specifically applied to the antenne when the last joint forms two long branches directed outward, like the prongs of a fork, as in certain Tenth red i nidæ . fi el, v. and n. See fi le1. fi enle , a. See fizzenle .