Word Meanings - SPILLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, spills. 2. A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

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• 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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
• BOULTER
  A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
• FISHWIFE
  A fishwoman.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FISHINESS
  The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.
• FISH
  1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. 2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott.
• FISH-TACKLE
  A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.
• FISHMONGER
  A dealer in fish.
• FISHERY
  The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. Abbott. (more info) 1. The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison. 2. A place for catching fish.
• FISHFUL
  Abounding with fish. "My fishful pond." R. Carew.
• FISHING
  1. The act, practice, or art of one who fishes. 2. A fishery. Spenser.
• FISHWOMAN
  A woman who retails fish.
• FISHSKIN
  See ICHTHYOSIS (more info) 1. The skin of a fish
• FISH-BELLIED
  Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.
• FISHY
  1. Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. Pope. 2. Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
• FISHLIKE
  Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish. A very ancient and fishlike smell. Shak.
• FISHERMAN
  A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery. (more info) 1. One whose occupation is to catch fish.
• FISHHOOK
  A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked. Dana. (more info) 1. A hook for catching fish.
• 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
• MUFFISH
  Stupid; awkward.
• TIFFISH
  Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• 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,
• 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.
• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• BILLFISH
  A name applied to several distinct fishes: The garfish and allied species. The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast . The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. The American fresh-water
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• SANDFISH
  A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America which buries itself in the sand.
• TARTUFFISH; TARTUFISH
  Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical. Sterne.
• MUDFISH
  The European loach. The bowfin. The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species . See Lipedosiren. The mud minnow.
• PADDLEFISH
  A large ganoid fish found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.