He was in the middle of an altercation with a carter who was loading his cart with dogfish which the fish-buyers had turned up their noses at and so it had to be sold for manure.
By and by a wave of the incoming tide threw up a dead dogfish about three feet long on the white sand within fifty yards of the window.
In the adult male dogfish the distal end of the basi-pterygium bears a stout rod nearly as long as itself, and grooved on the dorsal surface.
The exoskeleton of the dogfish is mainly composed of placoid scales, each of which consists of a little bony base imbedded in the skin, bearing a small backwardly-directed spine formed of dentine capped with enamel.
Owing to the fact that very little cartilage remains in the skull of the adult Codfish, its relation to the completely cartilaginous skull of the Dogfish is not easily seen.
The tail vertebrae of the dogfish have this typical arrangement, the trunk vertebrae have the haemal arches modified.
The endoskeleton of the dogfish consists almost entirely of cartilage, which however may become calcified in places, e.
In Kilkee the dogfish is called Faumera, for the dogfish is among the smaller fishes like what legend represents the Fomorians in Ireland.
The common gray dogfish of the North Atlantic and California coasts is the spiny one (Squalus acanthias), the larger females of which will weigh about eight pounds.
Finds and inquiries made at Dogfish village make it positive that the stone culture there is Eskimo, i.
It is fished by small boats and vessels when the dogfish are on the outer grounds.
On the deep-water mud bottom between these (Ripper and Western Reef) is good hake fishing in summer, and cusk are abundant from May to the time when the dogfish strike the ground, usually about July 5 to 10.
It was like a dogfishand a mackerel--the Henry just eat her up.
Then the bag was put around the seine to protect the rest of the mackerel from dogfish and sharks, and we were ready to dress.
There it was, while stretched on the warm shingle, with old Billy Quilleash sitting near, smoking his black cutty and mending the meshes broken by the dogfish of last year, that Dan hit on the idea of a new course in life.
It came up as black as coal, save for a single dogfish or two that had broken a mesh here and there.
The very air was fishy, being perfumed with dead sculpins, hard-heads and dogfish strewn plentifully on the beach.
A few steps farther the ladies scream, and the gentlemen make ready to protect them against a young shark of the dogfish kind rolling with a lifelike motion in the tide that has thrown him up.
The general form of these bars at an early stage of development is shewn in the dogfish (Scyllium) in fig.
But I maun awa' an' luik efter my lines, or atween the deil an' the dogfish my lord'll fare ill.
I'm no feart at a dogfish or a rottan, but I wud tak tent an' grip them the richt gait, for they hae teeth.
It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.
But after all, a dogfish is a shark, and aren't sharks the most vicious creatures o' the sea?
Why, at the last International Fishery Congress a speaker told of a plague o' dogfish which not only attacked lobsters, but swallowed pots an' all.
Some big dogfish also passed by, a voracious species of shark if there ever was one.
Dogfish known as topes, twelve feet long and especially feared by divers, were racing with each other.
Picture those early navigators venturing forth in sailboats built from planks lashed together with palm-tree ropes, caulked with powdered resin, and coated with dogfish grease.
But the fact remains that not a single dogfish let itself get caught in the Nautilus's nets, so I can't vouch for their voracity.
After supper Saginaw Ed received his final instructions, and early next morning Hurley struck out on foot fer Dogfish Spur.
What I an' me five hearties put into Dogfish last summer looks like drift piles from a summer rain, an' the same charge of canned thunder that busts the jam will blow the log-an' rock foundations of the drift piles to smithereens.
Shortly after noon of the tenth day, following his departure from camp, Connie stepped off the train at Dogfish Spur, to find Frenchy waiting for him with the tote-team.
The contrack is all signed and delivered, an' when Dogfish lets go tonight or tomorrow, the logs'll start.
They are the Larger Spotted Dogfish (Scyllium canicula) also known as the Nurse Dog and the Bull Huss; and the Lesser Spotted Dogfish (S.
The common Spiny Dogfish (Acanthias vulgaris), belonging to the family Spinacidae, frequents all parts of our coasts.
Then he spoke likewise to the dogfish, and the dogfish sang of slaughter and the chase, and the joy of blood.
Whereupon the herring, the mackerel, and the dogfish swam forward, and each claimed to be king.
When you are staying at the seaside you may sometimes find the dead body of a dogfish lying on the beach, where it has been flung by a very high wave.
It is called the dogfish because it follows shoals of fish in the water, just as a wild dog will follow the animals on which it preys upon dry land.
But even if you do not find the dogfish itself lying on the beach, you may often find its eggs, which are very curious little objects.
Though small, and harmless to man, thedogfish really is a shark, and for its size is very formidable, being able easily to fight and kill fishes quite as large as itself.
The skin of a dogfish is as rough as a piece of sandpaper.
He was born in Norway, came toDogfish Bay, Washington, 1880, and the same year settled near Norman.
A jolly fellow, familiarly known as Dogfish Nelson, was among the first Scandinavian pioneers.
The egg-albumins of the Tortoise, Frog, Skate, and two species of Dogfish did not react.
Then he scraped it with a scraper made of a piece of saw-plate, and then rubbed it with dogfish skin, which made all the curls and veins in the wood to show, and put it in the front room for Ben and Joe to see when they came in to dinner.
When the dogfish came the men pulled up their anchors and rowed a mile or so away, for where the dogfish pursues all others fly.
When there were no speckled cod on the hooks there were silvery hake, velvety black pollock, beautiful scarlet sea-perch that look like little old men, and an occasional ugly dogfish with his Chinese jade eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dogfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
