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hog-fish
[f. hog n.1 + fish. Cf. Ger. meerschwein, obs. It. pesce porco, Sp. puerco marino, OF. porpeis (:—L. porcum piscem), porpoise.]
†1. The Porpoise, also called sea-hog. Obs.
1611Florio, Pesce porco, the Molebout-fish, or Swine-fish, the Sea-swine, the Porpuis, Hog-fish or Sea-hog. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 32 These Porpoises, or Hog-fish, are very swift in their motion. [1850L. Hunt Autobiog. I. ii. 55, I did not know that..porpoise meant hog-fish.]
†2. The West African Manatee. Obs.
1597Hartwell Pigafetta's Lopez' Congo i. iv. in Churchill Voy. (1752) VIII. 532 In the river [Congo] another kind of creature, that hath, as it were, two hands, and a tail like a target, which is called ambize angulo, that is to say, a hog-fish. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 697.
3. A fish of the genus Scorpæna, having bristles on the head, and cirri or tags on the head and body.
1608Topsell Serpents 137 The Crocodiles doe also feare to meddle with the Sea-hogge or Hog-fish, because of his bristles all about his head. 1847Carpenter Zool. §556 The Scorpæna or Hog-fish has the head flattened side⁓ways. 1863Baird Stud. Nat. Hist. 494 Scorpaena scrofa, the hog-fish, a native of the European seas..is said to be very good eating.
4. Also applied to other kinds of fish, esp. the West Indian Lachnolæmus maximus or suillus, having 14 dorsal spines, and the hog-molly or log-perch, Percina caprodes, of North American rivers.
1734Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 317 Turdus flavus, the Hog-Fish..Suillus, the great Hog-Fish. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 445 The Hog-Fish. The two species are generally confounded under the same appellation in the markets. 1775Romans Florida App. 52 We may with safety eat of all fish caught on the Florida shore, unless it should be of the hog-fish taken on the very outer reef. 1840–1Boston (U.S.) Jrnl. Nat. Hist. III. 346 Etheostoma..The most common species found in the Ohio..called almost everywhere Hog-fish. 1843Zoologist I. 191. |