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finny

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fin·ny  (fn)
adj. fin·ni·er, fin·ni·est
1. Having a fin or fins.
2. Resembling a fin; finlike.
3. Of, relating to, or full of fish.

finny [ˈfɪnɪ]
adj -nier, -niest
1. Poetic relating to or containing many fishes
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) having or resembling a fin or fins


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Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their gills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times is combined with the element in which they swim, hence, a herring or a cod might live a century, and never once raise its head above the surface.
"Nope, it ain't the valley of the moon," agreed Billy, and he said it on the evening of the day he hooked a monster steelhead, standing to his neck in the ice-cold water of the Rogue and fighting for forty minutes, with screaming reel, ere he drew his finny prize to the bank and with the scalp-yell of a Comanche jumped and clutched it by the gills.
The whole was surmounted by an imitation of one of the finny tribe, carved in wood by the hands of Richard, and painted what he called a “scale-color.
 
 
 
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