'Barfish' definitions:
Definition of 'Barfish'
From: GCIDE
- Barfish \Bar"fish`\, n. (Zool.) Same as Calico bass. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'barfish'
From: GCIDE
- Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
- 1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. --Beck (Draper's Dict. ). [1913 Webster]
- 2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric. [1913 Webster]
- Calico bass (Zool.), an edible, fresh-water fish ({Pomoxys sparaides}) of the rivers and lake of the Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; -- called also calicoback, grass bass, strawberry bass, barfish, and bitterhead.
- Calico printing, the art or process of impressing the figured patterns on calico. [1913 Webster]