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A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

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  • MASTERSHIP
    1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
  • MASTEROUS
    Masterly. Milton.
  • FISHHAWK
    The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
  • MASTHOUSE
    A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.
  • MASTICABLE
    Capable of being masticated.
  • MASTICATION
    The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.
  • FISH-TAIL
    Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade
  • MASTOIDITIS
    Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
  • MASTOLOGY
    The natural history of Mammalia.
  • MASTODONTIC
    Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. Everett.
  • FISHWIFE
    A fishwoman.
  • MASTODYNIA; MASTODYNY
    Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.
  • MASTERFULLY
    In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
  • MASTICATORY
    Chewing; adapted to perform the office o
  • VESSELFUL
    As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
  • FISHINESS
    The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.
  • MASTICATE
    To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
  • MASTICATOR
    1. One who masticates. 2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
  • MASTERSINGER
    One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
  • MASTING
    The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house , a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging
  • SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
    A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
  • BONEFISH
    See LADYFISH
  • CREMASTERIC
    Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
  • POLYMASTISM
    The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.
  • MUFFISH
    Stupid; awkward.
  • BAGGAGE MASTER
    One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
  • HEMASTATICS
    Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
  • TIFFISH
    Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
  • YELLOWFISH
    A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
  • STYLOMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • DOGFISH
    1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked,
  • REMASTICATION
    The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
  • TOASTMASTER
    A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
  • WINGFISH
    A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
  • ELFISHLY
    In an elfish manner.
  • SELFISHLY
    In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
  • HEADFISH
    The sunfish .
  • STAFFISH
    Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
  • SWALLOWFISH
    The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.

 

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