FLYBLOW

v. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

2.
n.

One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.


← FLYBANE F — all words FLYBLOWN →