a. [f. FISH sb.1 + -FUL.] Abounding in fish.
1550. Phaer, Æneid, IV. (1558), K j. Most lyke a byrd that … his haunting kepes Among the fyshfull rocks.
1605. Camden, Remains (1638), 1. Watered with pleasant fishfull and navigable rivers, which yeeld safe havens and roads, and furnished with shipping and Sailers.
1652–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., II. (1682), 147. Not far from a Fishful Lake.
1860. All Year Round, 5 May, 79/2. They found an amphitheatre of rich slopes watered with many streams, and rising from the fishful Thames towards the distant heights now crowned by the spires of Highgate and Hampstead.
1889. Hissey, Tour in Phaeton, 227. Ingworth, a pretty little village by the side of the fishful-looking river Bure.
