A fish of the genus Amiurus.
1798. The company concluded to go, for the sake of seeing a horn pout—when at last I drew one up—and behold! what was it, but a cat fish!—Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Aug. 3.
1860. Muddy Pond at N. E. section, well stocked with horn pouts, eels, and shiners.—O. W. Holmes, ‘Elsie Venner’ (1887), p. 26. (N.E.D.)
1872. It was his great effort of the season on a bill for the protection of horn-pout in Little Muddy River.—Holmes, ‘The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,’ ch. ix.
