noun pl. fish, fishes fish′es

1. any of three classes (jawless, cartilaginous, and bony fishes) of coldblooded vertebrate animals living in water and having fins, permanent gills for breathing, and, usually, scales
2. loosely any animal living in water only, as a dolphin, crab, or oyster: often used in combination shellfish, jellyfish
3. the flesh of a fish used as food
4. Informal a person thought of as like a fish in being easily lured by bait, lacking intelligence or emotion, etc.

Etymology: ME < OE fisc, akin to Ger fisch, Du visch < IE base *pisk- > L piscis

intransitive verb

1. to catch or try to catch fish, or shrimps, lobsters, etc.
2. to try to get something indirectly or by cunning: often with for
3. to grope: often with for

Etymology: OE fiscian

transitive verb

1. to catch or try to catch fish, shrimps, etc. in to fish a stream
2. to get by or as by fishing
3. to grope for, find, and bring to view: often with out or up to fish a coin from one's pocket
4. Naut. to pull (an old-fashioned anchor) to the gunwale, as from the cathead, preparatory to securing it

adjective

1. of fish or fishing
2. selling fish