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ˈgilt-head ? Obs.
[f. gilt ppl. a. + head.]
A name given to various fishes which have the head marked with golden spots or lines: The striped tunny or bonito; the dorado or dolphin (Coryphæna hippuris); the cunner or golden wrasse (Crenilabrus melops or tinca).
1555Eden Decades 203 These flyinge fyshes and the fyshes named gylte heades. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Aurata..A fish, thought of some to be called a giltheade. 1591R. Turnbull St. James 102 They are not vnlike the fish Scarus, which some take to be the Gilthead or Goldenie. 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 520 Of these [flying fish] wee sawe..a hundred in a company.. chased by the gilt-heads, otherwise called the bonitoes. 1601Holland Pliny I. 337 All fishes be toothed like saws, saue only the guilt-head Scarus. 1620Venner Via Recta iv. 76 The Guilt-head or Goldine is whiter, and not..of so hard a substance as the Allowes. 1623Webster Devil's Law Case i. i, It may be, whiles he hopes to catch a gilt-head, He may draw up a gudgeon. 1674Ray Collect., Sea Fishes 105 Gilt-Heads, Aurata, Chrysophrys. 1705W. Bosman Guinea 278 Here are..Giltheads and other large Fish. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 579 Don't think that any Lucullus sups more pleasantly upon his..Gilt-heads, Sturgeons or Lampreys. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 197 The Gilt-head..takes its name from its predominant colour; that of the forehead and sides being as if gilt. Ibid. 198 No praise, no price a Gilt-head e'er will take, Unfed with oysters of the Lucrine lake. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VI. 305 The Ophidium, or Gilthead..is by sailors called the dolphin, and gives chace to the flying-fish. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 97 Chrysophrys aurata. The Gilt-head. Ibid. 293 The Gilt-head, Connor, Golden Maid. Crenilabrus tinca.
b. toothed gilthead = Sparus dentatus.
1832Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. i. 7 The most remarkable..were..the toothed gilt-head, the sea perch. |