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noun

• Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.
  • usage: "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"
• The flesh of fish used as food.
  • usage: "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish"
• Astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces.
  • synonyms: Pisces
• The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20.
  • synonyms: Pisces, Pisces the Fishes

verb

• Seek indirectly.
  • usage: "fish for compliments"
  • synonyms: angle
• Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish.
  • usage: "I like to go fishing on weekends"

• (v.i.) To seek to obtain by artifice or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
• (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
• (v.t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
• (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
• (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
• (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
• (v.t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
• (pl.) of Fish.
• (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
• (v.t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
• (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
• (v.i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
• (v.t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.) or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber or plate to the beam, mast or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
• (n.) A counter, used in various games.