Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.
1 The movements of the cuttle - fish at sea were also looked after at war-times.
2 The Dicyemida live parasitically in the body-cavity, especially the renal cavities, of the cuttle - fishes .
3 Of this cuttle - fish we made one of the best soups we had ever tasted.
4 One is a butterfly, the other a cuttle - fish, both of them skilfully conventionalized.
5 Just fancy scouring your teeth with a commodious roll of cuttle - bone , brick-dust, and pumice-stone!
6 In the higher branch of the Mollusc world the naked Cephalopods ( cuttle - fish , etc.)
7 The cuttle was anchored by three of its tentacles.
8 This they dipped in the black liquor emitted by the cuttle fish, which served for ink.
9 The fish-market was well supplied, especially with cuttle - fish .
10 Ned Land's harpoon, at each stroke, was plunged into the staring eyes of the cuttle fish.
11 In another family Moso was incarnate in the cuttle - fish , and none of them dared to eat one.
12 A huge cuttle - fish , the marine monster of Pliny and Victor Hugo, had been seen in the water.
13 As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle - fish sable, and a commentator rampant.
14 The squids and cuttle - fishes regained the swimming life, and in their latest forms gave up the protective shell.
15 Like a cuttle - fish in water, every movement produces a cloud of ink which shrouds his thought in darkness.
16 The occasions upon which these gigantic cuttle - fish appear at the sea surface must, I think, be very rare.
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