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Definitions for: Shark
[n] any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
[n] a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark"
[n] a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
[v] hunt shark
[v] play the shark; act with trickery
Webster (1913) Definition: Shark, n. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps through OF. fr.
carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as, so called from
its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp or jagged teeth;
or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf. Shark, v. t. & i.);
cf. Corn. scarceas.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch
fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark,
grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty
feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in
length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are
exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly
belong to the genera Carcharhinus, Carcharodon, and
related genera. They have several rows of large sharp
teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias, or Rondeleti) of tropical
seas, and the great blue shark (Carcharhinus glaucus)
of all tropical and temperate seas. The former
sometimes becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most
voracious and dangerous species known. The rare
man-eating shark of the United States coast
(Charcarodon Atwoodi) is thought by some to be a
variety, or the young, of C. carcharias. The dusky
shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), and the smaller blue
shark (C. caudatus), both common species on the coast
of the United States, are of moderate size and not
dangerous. They feed on shellfish and bottom fishes.
2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.]
3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
[Obs.] --South.
Baskin shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark,
Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking,
Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish,
Notidanian, and Tope.
Gray shark, the sand shark.
Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead.
Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont.
Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse.
Shark ray. Same as Angel fish
(a), under Angel.
Thrasher shark, or Thresher shark, a large, voracious
shark. See Thrasher.
Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of
the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length,
but has very small teeth.
Shark, v. t. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps fr. shark,
n., or perhaps related to E. shear (as hearken to hear), and
originally meaning, to clip off. Cf. Shirk.]
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Shark, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sharked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sharking.]
1. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to
swindle.
Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. --Bp.
Earle.
2. To live by shifts and stratagems. --Beau. & Fl.
See Also: Alopius vulpinus, angel shark, angelfish, Carcharias taurus, carpet shark, cat shark, cheat, chisel, cow shark, dogfish, elasmobranch, expert, fish, fox shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, hammerhead, hammerhead shark, Hexanchus griseus, mackerel shark, monkfish, nurse shark, Odontaspis taurus, offender, Orectolobus barbatus, requiem shark, Rhincodon typus, sand shark, sand tiger, selachian, six-gilled shark, Squatina squatina, thrasher, thresher, thresher shark, whale shark, wrongdoer
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