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† hound-fly Obs.
Also hound's fly.
A fly troublesome to dogs: cf. dog-fly.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxxvii[i]. 45 Sette him heard wite, hundes fleoᵹan. a1300Cursor M. 5956 Bath þai clang on man and best, To hund-flee [Fairf. fleys of hounde] war þai lickest. 1483Cath. Angl. 192/1 An Hundeflee, cinomia. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xii. xiii. (W. de W.), Cynomia, a houndes flye, is the werste kynde of flyes wyth gretter body and broder wombes than other flyes and lesse flyghte. |