Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Permit \Per*mit"\, n. [Cf. Sp. palamida a kind of scombroid
   fish.]
   (a) A large pompano ({Trachinotus goodei}) of the West
       Indies, Florida, etc. It becomes about three feet long.
   (b) The round pompano. ({T. falcatus}). [Local, U. S.]