fishen
adjEtymology From Middle English fisshen (“fishlike”), equivalent to fish + -en. Compare English piscine.
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Obsolete Relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike
- From betwixt their shoulders grewe their winges like Ha[r]pies, stretching downe and extending to the foulding and turnings of theyr tayles, vpon their monstrous flankes grew out their fynnes to swimme withall, their beginning, their fishen and scalye substance, and from thence so continuing theyr nether parts downewarde.1592, Francesco Colonna, Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, the strife of love in a dreame, page 53: