Fish, vb. 1) to be employed in catching fish: Tp. II, 2, 165. Hml. IV, 3, 28. Ant. I, 4, 4. With “for:” Merch. I, 1, 101. Figuratively, == to catch at sth., to seek to obtain by artifice: “that sort was well --ed for,” Tp. II, 1, 104. “others f. with craft for great opinion,” Troil. IV, 4, 105. “here's nothing to be got, unless thou canst f. for it,” Per. II, 1, 74.
2) to search in quest of fish: “his pond --ed by his next neighbour,” Wint. I, 2, 195.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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