Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BLACK'-FISH
BLACK'-FISH, n. [black and fish.]
- A fish in the Orontes, about twenty inches long, in shape resembling the sheatfish. Its eyes are placed near the corners of its mouth on the edge of the lower jaw. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.
- In the United States, a fish caught on the rocky shores of New England.
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