Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
{billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack},
{skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}.
Skipper \Skip"per\, n.
1. One who, or that which, skips.
2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The saury ({Scomberesox saurus}).
4. The cheese maggot. See {Cheese fly}, under {Cheese}.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small
butterflies of the family {Hesperiad[ae]}; -- so called
from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
Billfish \Bill"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A name applied to several distinct fishes:
(a) The garfish ({Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris}) and
allied species.
(b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast
({Scomberesox saurus}).
(c) The {Tetrapturus albidus}, a large oceanic species
related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
(d) The American fresh-water garpike ({Lepidosteus osseus}).
Source : WordNet®
Scomberesox saurus
n : slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
{saury}, {billfish}]