- A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family
Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland,
Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.
- A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the
Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the
Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under
Frostfish. - The kingfish. See Kingfish (a). - The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).
- Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or
Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular
body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a
long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the
incubation of the eggs takes place.