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One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
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n.
The basking, or liver, shark.
n.
A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
n.
Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.
n.
A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
v. i.
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
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n.
Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.
n.
The common sand shark. See under Snad.
n.
A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.
v. t. & i.
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
v. t. & i.
A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
v. i.
To live by shifts and stratagems.
n.
One who lives by sharking.
v. t.
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
n.
Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.
n.
A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
n.
A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
v. i.
To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
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