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• Bait

  ·vi A light or hasty luncheon. II. Bait ·vt To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. III....

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• bait

  The natural or artificial charge of a hook, to allure fish. ...

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• Cod

  ·noun A pillow or cushion. II. Cod ·noun A small bag or pouch. III. Cod ·noun A husk; a pod; as, a...

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• cod

  A cod of money: a good sum of money. ...

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• cod

  n. This common English name of the Gadus morrhua is applied to many fishes in Australia ofvarious f...

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• cod

  a pillow or cushion ; princod, a pin-cushion; a horse-cod, a horse-collar. N. Princod is also figura...

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• cod

  The centre of a deep bay. The bay of a trawl or seine. Also, the Gadus morrhua, one of the most impo...

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• scotch bait

  A halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars. ...

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• ground-bait

  , or groundling. A loach or loche. ...

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• white bait or bite

  The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...

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• Cod liver

  ·noun The liver of the common cod and allied species. ...

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• Cultus cod

  ·- ·see <<Cod>>, and Buffalo cod, under <<Buffalo>>. ...

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• cod piece

  The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...

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• rum cod

  A good purse of gold. CANT. ...

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• black-cod

  n. a New Zealand fish, Nototheniaangustata. ...

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• blue-cod

  n. name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...

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• murray-cod

  n. an important fresh-waterfood-fish, Oligorus macquariensis, Cuv. and Val., called Kookoobal by th...

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• rock-cod

  n. called also Red-Cod in NewZealand, Pseudophycis barbatus, Gunth., family Gadidae. In New Zealand...

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• cod-glove

  a thick glove, without fingers, to handle turf. Exm. ...

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• pin-cod

  a pincushion. ...

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• prin-cod

  a pin-cushion. Figuratively, a short fat man or woman. ...

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• bean-cod

  A small fishing-vessel, or pilot-boat, common on the sea-coasts and in the rivers of Spain and Portu...

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• blown cod

  A split cod, half dried by exposure to the wind. Blown is also frequently applied to bloated herring...

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• cod-line

  An eighteen-thread line. ...

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• cod-sounds

  The swim-bladders of the cod-fish, cured and packed for the market; the palates also of the fish are...

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• rock-cod

  A species of cod found on a rocky bottom. ...

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• tommy cod

  A very small variety of the Gadus morrhua, which mostly appears in the winter months; whence it is a...

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• cod-whangers

  See whangers ...

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• black rock-cod

  n. an Australian fish, chieflyof New South Wales, Serranus daemeli, Gunth.; adifferent fish from th...

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• cloudy-bay cod

  n. a New Zealand name for the Ling (q.v.). See also cod. ...

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• red rock-cod

  n. name given in New South Walesto the fish Scorpaena cardinalis, Richards., family Scorpaenidae, m...

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• cod-fisher's crew

  The crew of a banker, or fishing-vessel, which anchors in 60 or 70 fathoms on the Great Bank of Newf...

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