ANCHOVY, in Matters of Commerce, &c., a little Sea Fish, much used by way of Sauce, or Seasoning. Scaliger describes it as of the Herring-kind, about the Length of a Finger, having a pointed Snout, a wide Mouth, no Teeth, but Gums as rough as a Saw. Others make it a sort of Pilchard: But others, with better Reason, hold it a peculiar Species, very different from either. See FISH.
