BLACK'-FACED, adjective Having a black face. BLACK'-FISH, noun [black and fish.] A fish in the Orontes, about twenty inches long, in shape resembling the sheat-fish. Its eyes are placed near the corners of its mouth on the edge of the lower jaw. 1. In the U. States, a fish caught on the rocky shores of New England.
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