•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, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

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