Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FISH'GIG, or FIZ'GIG, n.

An instrument used for striking fish at sea, consisting of a staff with barbed prongs, and a line fastened just above the prongs. Mar. Dict.

FISH'HOOK, n.

A hook for catching fish.

FISH'I-FY, v.t.

To change to fish. [Low.] Shak.

FISH'ING, n.

1. The art or practice of catching fish.
2. A fishery. Spenser.

FISH'ING, ppr.

Attempting to catch fish; searching; seeking to draw forth by artifice or indirectly; adding a piece of timber to a mast or spar to strengthen it.

FISH'ING-FROG, n.

The toad-fish, or Lophius, whose head is larger than the body. Encyc.

FISH'ING-PLACE, n.

A place where fishes are caught with seins; a convenient place for fishing; a fishery.

FISH'KET-TLE, n.

A kettle made long for boiling fish whole.

FISH'LIKE, a.

Resembling fish. Shak.

FISH'MARK-ET, n.

A place where fish are exposed for sale.

FISH'MEAL, n.

A meal of fish; diet on fish; abstemious diet.

FISH'MON-GER, n.

A seller of fish; a dealer in fish.

FISH'POND, n.

A pond in which fishes are bred and kept.

FISH'ROOM, n.

An apartment in a ship between the afterhold and the spirit room. Mar. Dict.

FISH'SPEAR, n.

A spear for taking fish by stabbing them.

FISH'WIFE, n.

A woman that cries fish for sale. Beaum.

FISH'WO-MAN, n.

A woman who sells fish.

FISH'Y, a.

1. Consisting of fish.
2. Inhabited by fish; as, the fishy flood. Pope.
3. Having the qualities of fish; like fish; as, a fishy form; a fishy taste or smell.

FIS'SILE, a. [L. fissilis, from fissus, divided, from findo, to split.]

That may be split, cleft or divided in the direction of the grain, or of natural joints. This crystal is a pellucid fissile stone. Newton.

FIS-SIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of admitting to be cleft.

FIS'SI-PED, a. [L. fissus, divided, and pes, foot.]

Having separate toes.

FIS'SI-PED, n.

An animal whose toes are separate, or not connected by a membrane. Brown.

FIS'SURE, n. [fish'ure; Fr. from L. fissura, from findo, to split.]

1. A cleft; a narrow chasm made by the parting of any substance; a longitudinal opening; as, the fissure of a rock.
2. In surgery, a crack or slit in a bone, either transversely or longitudinally, by means of external force. Encyc.
3. In anatomy, a deep, narrow sulcus, or depression, dividing the anterior and middle lobes of the cerebrum on each side. Coxe.

FIS'SURE, v.t.

To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. Wiseman.

FIS'SUR-ED, pp.

Cleft; divided; cracked.