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DOLPHIN, n. [Gr.]

1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, comprehending the dolphin, the porpoise, the grampus and the beluga. But the fish to which seamen give this name, is the Coryphaena hippuris of Linne. It has a flat roundish snout and a tapering body, with a fin running along the back from the head to the tail, consisting of a coriaceous membrane with soft spines.

2. In ancient Greece, a machine suspended over the sea, to be dropped on any vessel passing under it.


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DOLPHIN, n. [Gr.]

1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, comprehending the dolphin, the porpoise, the grampus and the beluga. But the fish to which seamen give this name, is the Coryphaena hippuris of Linne. It has a flat roundish snout and a tapering body, with a fin running along the back from the head to the tail, consisting of a coriaceous membrane with soft spines.

2. In ancient Greece, a machine suspended over the sea, to be dropped on any vessel passing under it.

DOL'PHIN, n. [L. delphin or delphinus; Gr. δελφιν; Ir. deilf; Fr. dauphin; Sp. delfin; It. delfino; Arm. daofin, dolfin; W. dolfyn, from dolf, a curve or winding.]

  1. The popular name of several species of Delphinus, a genus of cetaceous mammalia comprehending, according to some naturalists, the dolphin proper, the sword-fish, the porpess, the grampus, &c. But the fish to which seamen give this name, is the Coryphæna hippuris of Linnæus. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.
  2. In ancient Greece, a machine suspended over the sea, to be dropped on any vessel passing under it. Mitford.

Dol"phin
  1. A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

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  2. A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
  3. A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

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  4. In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
  5. A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.

    Dolphin fly (Zoöl.), the black, bean, or collier, Aphis (Aphis fable), destructive to beans. -- Dolphin striker (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the bowsprit.

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Dolphin

DOLPHIN, noun [Gr.]

1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, comprehending the dolphin the porpoise, the grampus and the beluga. But the fish to which seamen give this name, is the Coryphaena hippuris of Linne. It has a flat roundish snout and a tapering body, with a fin running along the back from the head to the tail, consisting of a coriaceous membrane with soft spines.

2. In ancient Greece, a machine suspended over the sea, to be dropped on any vessel passing under it.

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