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Webster 1913 Edition

(lī′rĭ)

Noun.

[Icel.

hlȳri

a sort of fish.]

(Zool.)

A European fish (

Peristethus cataphractum

), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; – called also

noble

pluck

pogge

sea poacher

, and

armed bullhead

lyrie ‎(plural lyries)

(obsolete) Aspidophorus europaeus or Peristethus cataphractum, a European fish having the body covered with bony plates, and with three spines projecting in front of the nose.