Ăng'ler, n.

noun

n. 1. One who fishes with an angle. 2. (Ichth.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius) having a large, broad, and depressed head, with a mouth nearly as wide as the head. Sea-devil (Lophius piscatorius). Its body is narrow as compared with the head, tapering gradually to the tail. It lives at the bottom of the water, burying itself in the mud;—called also fishing-frog. Yarrell.

An illustration of a sea-devil fish, shown from the side with a broad, spiny head and fan-shaped fins. — Sea-devil (*Lophius piscatorius*).