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fly-blown, ppl. a. (ˈflaɪbləʊn) [f. fly n.1 + blown ppl. a.] 1. Full of fly-blows; tainted, putrid, impure.1573 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 138 Flyblowen fleshe comm not in my messe. 1612 Webster White Devil v. iii, A dead fly-blown dog. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 137 The Manna was fly-blown. 17...
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fly-blown
fly-blownadj1 (of meat, etc) bad or unfit to eat, because contaminated by flies' eggs (指肉等)(因有蝇卵)腐败的, 不宜食用的.2 (fig 比喻) in a bad condition; dirty or spoiled 破烂的; 肮脏的; 损坏的.
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Barbara Ker-Seymer
school, she, her mother and her elder sister, Manon (born 1903) were living at West Kensington, which was perceived at the time to be a place 'where the fly-blown
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fly-blow
▪ I. ˈfly-blow, n. [f. fly n.1 + blow n.2] 1. The egg deposited by a fly in the flesh of an animal, or the maggot proceeding therefrom. Also collect. Rarely the action of depositing the egg.1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. xliv. 229 This flie hath blown fliblowe in mine eare a pecke. 1688 R. Holme Armour...
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Gibberbird
Gibberbirds are indiscriminate, opportunistic foragers and have been known to feed on blowfly larvae dropped from fly-blown sheep.
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fly-bitten
ˈfly-ˌbitten, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + bitten.] 1. Bitten by flies; loosely used for: † a. Fly-specked; † b. fly-blown; c. Stung by flies.1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 159 These Fly-bitten Tapistries. 1598 Florio, Alida..flie-bitten meate. 1884 A. Gregory in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 378 Their [Baggara Arabs'...
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Point Horror
Andrew Matthews)
2001
Unleashed - Fright Train (Paul Stewart)
Unleashed - Lowlake (Roger Davenport)
Unleashed - The Cunning Man (Celia Rees)
Mutant - Fly-Blown
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blote
▪ I. † blote, blot Obs. [? Connected with blow in blow-fly, fly-blown. (The sense can hardly be explained from OE. blát ‘livid, pale’, to which the form answers.)] The egg or larva of flies and other insects.1657 S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 44 The Kings [i.e. queen-bees] do at certain seasons cast f...
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Rudd Concession
"Bring me the fly-blown paper and I will sign it," he said.
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خوتعيات
ويأتي اسم الذبابة الزرقاء الكبيرة (blow-fly) من المصطلح الإنجليزي القديم المستخدم للإشارة إلى اللحم الذي يوضع عليه البيض، والذي كان يطلق عليه باللغة الإنجليزية اسم fly blown.
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whereon
whereon, adv. Now formal or arch. (hwɛərˈɒn) [f. where 15 + on prep. Cf. Du. waaraan, G. woran.] I. 1. interrog. On what?c 1205 Lay. 15516 Ne mihten heo nauere finden..whær on hit weore ilong. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1310 Ðo wurð ðe child witter and war Ðat ðor sal offrende ben don, Oc ne wiste he quuat, ...
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Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
those who lit the powder trail, and who yell and scream for joy as the embassies of democracies are put to the torch in the capital cities of miserable, fly-blown
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blow
▪ I. blow, v.1 (bləʊ) Pa. tense blew. Pa. pple. blown (also in sense 29 blowed). Forms: 1 bláwan, 2–3 blawen, (2 blauwen), blouwen, 3 bloawen, 5 blowen, blowyn, 3–7 blowe, 5– blow; (north.) 3–4 blau, 4–6 blawe, 3– blaw. pa. tense 1 bleów, bléw, 2–3 bleu, 4 blwe, bleeȝ, bleȝ, 3–5 blu, 5 blue, 4–6 ble...
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fly
▪ I. fly, n.1 (flaɪ) Pl. flies (flaɪz). Forms: fléoᵹe (in comb. fléoᵹ-, fléoh-), fl{yacu}ᵹe, Northumb. fléᵹe, 2–4 fliȝe, south. vliȝe, 3 fleoȝe, flye, south. vlie, 3–4 fleȝe, south. vleȝe, fleih, south.. vleih, 3–7, 8 Sc. flie, 4– north. and Sc. flee, 4–5 flegh, (4 fleeȝe, fleh, flei(ghe, fley(e, fl...
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