Fiscal, fis'-kal, a

pertaining to the public treasury or revenue: s. the State revenue; a treasurer; in Scotland, an officer who acts as public prosecutor in criminal cases. means of gills; fishes in general; the flesh of fish, used as food; counter used at cards; apiece of wood fastened to another to strengthen it; a fish-block. Craw-fish, crab -fish, and shell-fish, the crustaceans and testaceous mollusca: v.n. to try to catch fish, as by angling or drawing nets; to seek to obtain by artifice or indirectly: v.a.to try to catch fish in; to search by dragging or sweeping; to strengthen, as a mast or yard, with a piece of timber [Naut.);to draw out or up. Tofish out, to draw out by artifice. (A.S. fisc. )