A name for various fishes: (a) the wolf-fish, Anarrhichas lupus; (b) the great weever, Trachinus draco; (c) a shark, Scyllium catulus; (d) Chimæra…

‘A light triangular or quadrilateral sail, the head being extended on a small gaff which hoists on the topmast, and the foot on the lower gaff’…

= mudcat, n. 1.

Any of several North American freshwater catfishes of the family Ictaluridae, found in muddy rivers esp. in the Mississippi valley. Also in…

(a) a breed or variety of domestic cat having grey or bluish-grey fur; esp. a Russian blue; (b) U.S. = blue catfish n.

= channel cat n.

any of several North American catfish, esp. of the genus Ictalurus; spec. a medium-sized catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, native to eastern North…

a name for various marine siluroid fishes.

= bashaw, n. 3, Pylodictis olivaris.

any spiny fish of the genus Scorpæna or family Scorpænidæ; also, an East Indian catfish (Saccobranchus).

Local name for a very large catfish of the species Pylodictis olivaris; the mud cat. U.S.

ground spearing (see quots.).