Both Uses of
denizen
in
Moby Dick
- —Though this fish, whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not popularly classed among whales.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- For this part of the Indian Ocean through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively ground; that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins, flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than those off the Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(denizen) a person or animal that inhabits or frequently visits a particular place