houndfishn.
a. A name given to various small sharks; = dogfish n. Obsolete.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 581 With thilke brustles of his berd vnsofte Lyk to the skyn of houndfyssh sharpe as brere.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1084 Harske as a hunde-fisch..So was þe hyde of þat hulke hally al over!
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 250/2 Hownde fyshe, canis marinus.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.ivv Mortrus of houndes fysshe.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §3. 132 The Greater and the Lesser Hound Fish.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Hound-Fish,..two different fish of the squalus kind, the one called the smooth, and the other the prickly Hound.
18.. H. Miller Lett. Herring Fishery The..hun-fish..a voracious animal of the shark species.
b. attributive, as houndfish-skin.
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1449–50 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 402 j hownd~fissch skyn..ad officium carpentariorum.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 39v A Hunfysh skin, and a cloth.
2. Applied to other species of fish:
a. Species of garfish of genus Tylosurus, such as the T. jonesi (Bermuda) and T. acus.
b. blue hound-fish, a former name in Massachusetts of Pomatomus saltatrix, now called the Bluefish.
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blue hound-fish1672
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reef fish1872
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schoolmistress fish1929
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 24 Blew Fish or Hound Fish, two kinds, speckled Hound Fish, and blew Hound Fish called Horse Fish.
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c. speckled hound-fish, a former name of the Spanish mackerel.
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