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Definition of May fish
1. Noun. Black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States.
Generic synonyms: Killifish
Group relationships: Fundulus, Genus Fundulus
Lexicographical Neighbors of May Fish
Literary usage of May fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"30: If I have land adjoining the sea where the sea ebbs and Hows over the land,
when It flows, everyone may fish In the water which has flowed on my land, ..."
2. The English Journal by National Council of Teachers of English (1919)
"H. About 3 or 4 in the morning you may fish at the spot chosen. A. Don't go so
near the stream that ... In the afternoon you may fish again for four hours. ..."
3. A Treatise of the Law of Waters: Including the Law Relating to Rights in the by Humphry William Woolrych (1853)
"... here he may fish without the hindrance of any, as his own free tenement,
&c.,(z) So it is again, if he possess only the land on one side of the water, ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"It is often supposed that, at all events, if a highway adjoins a private stream,
any one may fish in the stream or angle there ; but this is a delusion. ..."
5. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1880)
"No person may fish for salmon in any fishery, either with rod and line, or net,
or weir, or fixed engine, without a proper licence.0 No person may shoot or ..."
6. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"In England the general rule is that any one of the public may fish ... It is
often supposed that if a highway adjoins a private stream any one may fish in ..."
7. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"Long may fish swim ! " is the cry of the song, and the " fishery " are drunk ...
Long may fish swim ! " sounds in their ears like " Britons never shall be ..."
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