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An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.

A kind of buggy having a body with low sides, and side springs.

A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.

A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.

An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

One who humbugs.

The practice of imposition.

A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle. Moore.

Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [U. S.]

Same as Ladybird.

Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.

A chiton.

See Tumbledung.

The Croton bug.

Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

a), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.