A voracious fish of the genus Squalus, of several species. The body is oblong, tapering and rough, and some species have several rows of serrated teeth. The largest grow to the length of thirty feet.

A greedy artful fellow; one who fills his pockets by sly tricks.

Trick; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.

In New England, one that lives by shifts, contrivance or stratagem.

To pick up hastily, slily or in small quantities.

To play the petty thief; or rather to live by shifts and petty stratagems.

To cheat; to trick.

To fawn upon for a dinner; to beg. To shark out, to slip out or escape by low artifices.