[L. fario salmon-trout.] (See quot. 1753.)
[a. 1672. Willughby, Icthyogr., 189. Ausonii ætate maximi & seniores Salmones dicebantur, mediæ magnitudinis & ætatis Sariones aut Fariones.]
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Fario, in Zoology, a term for a salmon when about half-grown.
1854. David Badham, Prose Halieutics; or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle, 6. Not a hook ever entered the lip of a singe trout … they are all poached farios snared or netted.
