Vocabulary : Fisetic to Fishermen
Fisetic : Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.Fisetin : A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid.
Fish : A counter, used in various games. ;; of Fish ;; A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. ;; 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. ;; The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces. ;; The flesh of fish, used as food. ;; A purchase used to fish the anchor. ;; A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. ;; To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. ;; To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. ;; To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. ;; To search by raking or sweeping. ;; To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. ;; To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber,
Fish-bellied : Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail.
Fish-block : See Fish-tackle.
