(Genus, esox. Cuvier.) An immense fish of the Pike species, caught in the St. Lawrence and the great lakes. I have seen a specimen taken at Kingston upwards of four feet in length. Dr. Richardson, in his "Fauna Borealis Am.," says that he found none in the rivers which empty into Hudson's Bay or the Polar Sea.
The masquinoijé is to all appearance a large species of pike, and possesses the ravenous propensities of that fish.--Backwoods of Canada, p. 161.
Mass. The common abbreviation for Massachusetts.