flealouse (flelous)

The popular name of the homopterous insects of the family Psylli dæ, resembling in general appearance the aphides or true plant-lice, but distinguished by the difference in the fore wings, which have a distinct marginal vein. In the larval state the flea sion. flection fleck, flek, flekke, flik, a spot, stain, place, = D. vlek, a spot, stain, blemish, = MLG. vlecke = OHG. flec, fleccho, MHG. vlec, vlecke, G. fleck, a spot, stain, place, piece, patch, shred, etc. Prob. connected with flick1, q. v.] 1. A spot; a streak; a splash; a stain. Life is dash'd with flecks of sin. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lii. Spenser... lifts everything, not beyond recognition, but to an ideal distance where no mortal.fleck is visible. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 186. Specifically-2. In entom ., an irregular and generally elongate dot of color: applied especially to such dots on the wings of butterflies and moths. fleck1 (flek), v . t. [ flecken , flekken , flekka = Dan. flække = Sw. fläcka , fläka = D. vlekken , spot, stain, = G. flecken , spot, stain, put on a piece, patch; from the noun.] To spot; streak or stripe; dapple. Also flecker . Our pikes stand to receive you like a wood, We'll fleck our white steeds in your Christian blood. Heywood, Four Apprentices of London. And straight the sun was flecked with bars - Heaven's mother send us grace!- As if through a dungeon-grate he peered With broad and burning face. Cole ridge, Ancient Mariner, iii. The more distant ridges faded into a dull indigo hue, flecked with patches of ghastly white. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 44. fleck (flek), n. [Another form of flakel , influenced in form by fleck1 , a spot.] A flake; a lock. And flecks of wool stick to their withered lips. Theo. Martin, tr. of Catullus.