flycatcher

[Eng. fly, and catcher.] 1. Ord. Lang.: One that hunts or catches flies. 2. Ornithology: (1) Sing .: The genus Muscicapa, the typical one of the family Muscicapidæ (q. v.). The European or Spotted Fly-catcher ( Muscicapa griseola ) is rition be seen at all, it is probably due to refraction. 2. A nickname applied, on account of its speed, to the English expre train running from London to Exeter. Two other British very fast trains are nicknamed the Flying Scotch man (q. v.), and, not the Flying, but the Wild Irish man. The last-mentioned train runs from London to Holy head, en route for Dublin. flying-fish, 8. Ichthy. & Ord. Lang.: The name given to more than one fish which, having extended fins, leaps from the water, and after a more or le leng the nod flight, drops into it again. The fins seem to act as parachutes rather than as wings. The Common Flying-fish is Exocœtus volitans . It belongs to the family Esocide. Another closely allied species is E. exiliens, the Greater Flying-fish. Both have straggled to the North Atlantic waters. They are abundant in the Mediterranean. For another flying fish of a distinct genus, see Flying-gurnard. IMG:content-1835.png:[blocks in formation] flying-party, s. 1875 the nummulitic rocks. They are believed to be Upper Eocene. Some have been changed into saccharoid marble, quartz rock, and mica-schist. fly-trăp, s. [Eng. fly, and trap.] Bot.: Apocynum androsæmifolium. Venus' fly-trap: Bot.: Dionœa muscipula . [DIONEA.] fly-wõrt, s . [Eng. fly , and wort (q. v.).] Bot.: A name applied to the genus My an thus, now merged in Catasetum. *fnast, s . [A. S. fnæst.] Breath, breathing. "Hire horte was so gret That wel negh hire fnast atschet." Owl and Nightingale, 48.