botfly (botfli)

A name given to dipterous insects of the family Estride, the larvæ of which infest different parts of living animals. See bot1. The horse-bot, Gasterophilus equi (Fabric i us), IMG:content-2354.png:[merged small][ocr errors] Horse Bot-fly (Gasterophilus equi ), about natural size. a , lateral view; b, dorsal view. is taken into the stomach of the horse; the ox-bot lives just under the cuticle of the ox; and the sheep-bot, Estrus ovis (Linnæus), in the frontal sinuses of the sheep. Other animals are affected by particular species. both (both), a. and pron. [= Sc. baith, = couple, in reference to two persons or things specially mentioned, and denoting that neither of them is to be excluded, either absolutely or (as with either ) as an alternative, from the statement. Youre bother love [the love of you both]. Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 168. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Gen. xxi. 27. He will not bear the lo of his rank, because he can bear the lo of his estate; but he will bear both , because he is prepared for both . Bolingbroke . Both had been presidents, both had lived to great age, both were early patriots, and both were distinguished and ever honored by their immediate agency in the act of independence. D. Webster , Adams and Jefferson. [The genitive both's (ME. bothes, bothers, earlier bother, bathre) is now disused; in the earlier period it was joined usually with the genitive plural of the personal pronoun. Subsequently the simple both, equivalent to of both, was used. both One hath wounded me, That's by me wounded; both our remedies Within thy help and holy physic lies. Shak., R. and J., ii. 3.] Both two, both the two, pleonastically for both . Both the two cities reached a high pitch of prosperity. Grote, Hist. Greece, ii. 18. both (both), adv. or conj. [ nate terms. ... I thought good now to present unto your Grace not any better gift of mine owne, but surely an excellent gift other mans deuise and making, which both done, doth, and shal do much good to many other good folke, and to your Noble Grace also. John Fouler, Pref. to Sir T. More's Cumfort against [Tribulation (1573). [He] was indeed his country's both minion, mirror, and wonder. Ford, Line of Life. A great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. Acts xiv. 1. Which I suppose they doe resigne with much willing ne , both Livery, Badge, and Cognizance. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xxi. But these discourses were both written and delivered in the freshne of his complete manhood. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, v. bother (вотн'er), v. [First in the early part 637