ling

Any of various marine food fishes closely related to and resembling the cod, especially Molva molva of northern Atlantic waters, having a long body and a barbel on the chin.

Common heather, Calluna vulgaris.

An adverbial suffix, forming adverbs from nouns, as in backling, darkling, groveling, headling, sideling, halfling, etc.

A European gadoid fish, Molva molva or M. vulgaris (called by Cuvier Lota molva).

An American gadoid fish, Lota maculosa, better known as the burbot, and also called lawyer and lake-lawyer.

A chiroid fish, Ophiodon elongatus, better known as cultus-cod.

Same as bay-cod.

Same as conger-eel, 3.

A termination having usually a diminutive or depreciative force, occurring in designations of persons, as darling, earthling, gadling, gadling, groundling, hireling, lordling, stripling, underling, worldling, etc., or of young animals, etc., as duckling, gosling, kidling, kitling, starling, firstling, nestling, yearling, etc.