[SNIPE sb.]

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  1.  Any fish of the genus Centriscus; esp. the trumpet-fish, bellows-fish, or sea-snipe, C. scolopax.

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1668.  Charleton, Onomast., 123. Scolopax,… the Snipe-fish.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, I. V. i. 101. The figure of his Bill, which is an entire Pipe, shaped almost like that of the Snipe-Fish.

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1836.  Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, I. 302. Centriscus scolopax, Snipe-fish.

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1867.  Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 568/1. Trumpet-fish, or Snipe-fish (Centriscus), a genus of fishes … remarkable for the elongated and tubular snout.

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1881.  Day, Fishes Gt. Brit., I. 250. The trumpet, bellows-fish, woodcock or snipe-fish.

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  2.  The snipe-eel (Cent. Dict., 1891).

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