† sheath-fishn.
Obsolete.
The razor-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > family Siluridae > member of (cat-fish)
sheath-fish1602
catfish1620
silure1802
roundhead1828
siluridan1835
silurian1842
sheat-fish1851
siluroid1851
nematognath1890
silurid1891
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > family Siluridae > genus Silurus (sheat-fish)
whale of the river1585
sheat-fish1589
river-whale1601
Silurus1601
sheath-fish1602
nimble-taila1661
shoat-fish1705
wels1880
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
razorc1311
spout1525
spout-fish1594
razor-fish1602
sheath-fish1602
hagfish1611
pitot1611
solen1661
sheath shell1712
sheatha1717
razor shell1752
knife-handle1755
sea-pencil1755
razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 32 The Sheath, or Rasor-fish, resembles in length and bignesse a mans finger.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 126 Sheth or haft fishe.
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5022 A Sheath-fish, which is very plentiful in New-England; a delicate fish, cover'd with a thin shell and of the colour of a Musle.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vi. ii. 143 The Sheath-Fish, commonly so called from its similitude to the sheath of a Knife. Solen. Vnguis.
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