Basking shark

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• basking shark

  So called from being often seen lying still in the sunshine. A large cartilaginous fish, the Squalus...

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• Basking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Bask>>. ...

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• Shark

  ·vi To live by shifts and stratagems. II. Shark ·vt To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly....

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• shark

  A sharper: perhaps from his preying upon any one he can lay hold of. Also a custom-house officer, or...

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• shark

  n. Some of the Australasian speciesare identical with those of Europe. Varieties and nameswhich dif...

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• shark

  A name applied to many species of large cartilaginous fish of the family Squalidæ. Their ferocity an...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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• blind shark

  or Sand Shark ,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.). 1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...

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• carpet-shark

  n. i.q. wobbegong (q.v.) ...

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• jack-shark

  A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe. ...

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• johnny shark

  A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe. ...

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• bull-dog shark

  i.q. bull-head1 (q.v.). ...

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• Port-Jackson Shark

  Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder. 1882. Rev. J....

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• hammer-headed shark

  The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...

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