Dictionary entry

Fish (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fish (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Fished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fishing.] 1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott.