conger

The Sailor's Word-Book

A large species of sea-eel, furnishing a somewhat vile viand, but eatable when strongly curried. Not at all despised by the people of Cornwall in "fishy pie."

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conger
conger (access. form congrus, acc. to Charis. p. 12 P.; also gonger, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 148), g...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
conger
conger grī, m , =γόγγρος, a sea-eel, conger-eel, T. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Conger
·noun The conger eel; — called also congeree. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
conger
To conger; the agreement of a set or knot of booksellers of London, that whosoever of them shall buy...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose