flyblow (fliblo)

[ revolutionary war by the He ian troops, and now the most flyblown (fli'blōn), p. a. [ IMG:content-1568.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] a, larva; b, pupa; c, infested stalk of wheat. got. There are two broods annually, the first laying eggs in April or May, the second in September. The renmedies are late sowing, or sometimes sowing a small patch early to serve as a trap, pasturing with sheep in November, and sowing hardy varieties, such as the Under hill Mediterranean wheat, especially the Lancaster variety. - Onion-fly, Anthomyia ceparum, the larva of which is known as the onion - maggot. See Anthomyia. - Orange-belted fly, Ta ban us cinct us. - Snelled fly, in angling, a fly fitted on a snell.-Spanish fly, the blistering fly. See Cantharis. - Tail-fly, in angling, the fly at the end of the leader. See fly-line2. To cast the fly. See cast1. - To rise to the fly, to be attracted by an artificial fly when it is offered as a lure: said of some fishes, in contradistinction to others which take sunken bait only. - To tie a fly, to dre a hook so that it shall resemble a fly. - White fly. (a) The common name of Bibio alb i pennis about the great lakes of the United States. (b) An ephemerid; a shad-fly, Mayfly, or day-fly. [Local, U. S.] (See also cabbage - fly, forest fly, hand-fly, radish - fly, robber -fly, saw-fly, stretcher-fly, etc.) fly2 (fli), v.; pret. and pp. flied, ppr. flying. [ Him, that thou magnifiest with all these titles, Stinking and fly - blown , lies here at our feet. Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 7. Such a light as putrefaction breeds In fly - blown flesh, whereon the maggot feeds. Cowper , Conversation, 1. 676. fly-board (fli'bord), n . In printing , the board on which the printed sheets are laid by the fly. flyboat (fli'bot), n. [Early mod. E. also flie boat, flibote ; cf. F. flibote = Sp. flibote , fil i bote , G. flieboot , vlieboot , flyboat. The E. term, like the others, is usually derived from the D., but the D. term does not appear in Kilian (1598), and the formation, which should rather be * vliegboot , is unusual; the D. may be from the E. The E. word, appar. referring to the swiftne of the boat, fly1 , v ., + boat , may be an accom. of Icel. fley , a kind of swift ship (only in poetry, but the comp. fley - skip , flyship,' opposed to langskip , 'long ship,' also in prose; a form * fleybatr = flyboat does not occur). For the supposed connection with fil i buster, see that word.] 1. A large flat-bottomed Dutch ve el with a high stem, of a kind chiefly employed in the coasting-trade, having a burden of from 400 to 600 tons. One of the Flemings flieboats... chanced fired and blowen vp by his owne powder. to be Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 612. 2. A light, swift sail-boat. flies. It has leaves of Bristol-board or other stiff mater i al. At the ends of the leaf are small hooks or loops to which the fish hooks are attached so that the flies may be carried without bending the gut. Fly-book. ad