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gad-fly
ˈgad-ˌfly [f. gad n.1] 1. The popular name of a fly which bites and goads cattle, esp. a fly of the genus Tabanus or of the genus Œstrus; a bot-fly, breeze.1626 T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 120 It was like..as a bull stung with a Gad-fly. 1727–46 Thomson Summer 499 Light fly his slumbers, if perchance ... Oxford English Dictionary
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gad-bee
ˈgad-ˌbee [f. gad n.1] = gad-fly 1.1530 Palsgr. 223/2 Gadde be a flye, bourdon. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 318 The bigger kind of bees..and this vermin is called Oestrus (i. the gad-bee or horse flie). 1639 Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xix. §221 Cattell stricken with a gad-bee, skip up and down, and run a... Oxford English Dictionary
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Henry Gullett
Jack Lang remembered him as "the gad-fly who harassed the Scullin Government incessantly". wikipedia.org
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gad-breeze
† gad-breeze Obs. rare—1. [f. gad n.1 + breeze n.1] = gad-fly 1.1703 Country Farm. Catech., I can liken him to nothing but my bald heffer when she's got the gad-breeze in her tail. Oxford English Dictionary
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Mirza Jahangir Khan
His satirical political column, named Charand o Parand (Balderdash and Piffle) and signed by such imaginary figures as Dakhoo, Dakhoo-Ali, Khar-Magas (Gad-fly wikipedia.org
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Otium
although he has the education and manners of a gentleman, he has no leisure; but Socrates, in the Apology, has no leisure either; he is too busy as a gad-fly wikipedia.org
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gad
▪ I. gad, n.1 (gæd) Forms: 4–7 gadd, 5–6 gadde, 8–9 Sc. gaud, gawd, 4– gad. [a. ON. gadd-r spike, nail = OHG. and MHG. gart, Goth. gazd-s:—OTeut. *gazdo-z (cf. L. hasta). From the OTeut. deriv. *gazdjâ comes OHG. gerta (G. gerte), OE. ᵹęrd, ᵹierd, ᵹyrd: see yard. The original sense is probably that ... Oxford English Dictionary
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ergastoplasm
ergastoplasm Biol. (ɜːˈgæstəʊplæz(ə)m) [ad. F. ergastoplasme (C. Garnier 1897, in Bibliographie Anat. V. 288), f. as prec. + plasm.] (See quot. 1925.) Hence ergastoˈplasmic a.1902 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) vi. 322 The ‘ergastoplasmic’ (Garnier) fibrillæ of gland-cells. Ibid., The conception of a dom... Oxford English Dictionary
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tabanid
tabanid, a. and n. (ˈtæbənɪd) [f. L. tabānus a gad-fly or horse-fly, adopted by Linnæus (1736, in Acta Soc. R. Scient. Upsaliensis 31) as a generic name, + -id3.] A. adj. Belonging to the family Tabanidæ of flies, of which Tabanus is the typical genus. B. n. A fly of this family, a gad-fly.1891 in C... Oxford English Dictionary
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œstrus
‖ œstrus (ˈiːstrəs, ˈɛs-) Also (U.S.) estrus. [L. œstrus, a. Gr. οἶστρος gad-fly, breeze, also sting, hence frenzy, mad impulse.] 1. Entom. A genus of dipterous insects, of which the larvæ are parasitic in the bodies of various animals; an insect of this genus or of the family Œstridæ; a gad-fly or ... Oxford English Dictionary
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ox
ox (ɒks) Forms: 1 oxa, 2–7 oxe, 4, 7– ox, (5 hox, 6 oxce), 7– (north. and Sc.) owce, owse. pl. 1 oxan, (œxen, exen), 2– oxen, (3 ocsen, oxene, 4–6 -in, -yn, -yne, 5 -one, exin, exon, 6 oxeson), north. and Sc. 6 oussin, 7– owsen, owssen, ousen. β. 4–6 oxes, (4 -is, 5 -ys). [Com. Teut.: OE. oxa wk. ma... Oxford English Dictionary
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stinger
▪ I. stinger1 (ˈstɪŋə(r)) [f. sting v.1+ -er1.] 1. One who stings; applied fig. to Death. Also, one who goads or instigates; one who has a sharp tongue.1552 Huloet, Prycker or stynger, Stigator, stimulator. 1577 Kendall Flowers of Epigr., Trifles 13 To stingers suche a stingyng crowne, of Nettelles ... Oxford English Dictionary
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ton
▪ I. ton1 (tʌn) Forms: 4–6 tonne, 5 toun, 6 toonne, (tune), Sc. twn, 6–7 tunne, 6–8 tun, 7 tunn, 5– ton. See also tun n. [In origin the same word as tun (OE. tunne, OF. tonne) a cask. In ME. this was commonly spelt, as in French, tonne; in 16–17th c., more often tun; from c 1688 the two spellings ha... Oxford English Dictionary
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bull-dog
▪ I. bull-dog, n. (Also 6 bold-dogge.) Often without hyphen (as one word) esp. in transf. uses. [f. bull n.1 + dog; because used in bull-baiting, or ? from the shape of the head. With the oldest spelling bolddogge, compare ‘Hic molossus, a bonddoge’, a 1500 in Wr.-Wülcker 758.] 1. a. A dog of a bold... Oxford English Dictionary
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beast
▪ I. beast, n. (biːst) Forms: 3–6 beste, best, beest(e, 4–6 Sc. beist, 6–7 beaste, (6 bieste, 7 beise), 6– beast. (pl. dial. beas(e, beeas(e, beass.) [a. OF. beste:—L. bestia. The earliest use of the word was to translate L. animal, in which it took the place of OE. deór, just as it was, in this sen... Oxford English Dictionary
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