单词 | hound-fly |
释义 | † hound-flyn. Obsolete. A fly troublesome to dogs: cf. dogfly n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified > parasite > troublesome to dogs hound-flyc1000 c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxxvii[i]. 45 Sette him heard wite, hundes fleogan. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5956 Bath þai clang on man and best, To hund-flee [Fairf. fleys of hounde] war þai lickest. 1483 Cath. Angl. 192/1 An Hundeflee, cinomia. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xii. xiii Cynomia, a houndes flye, is the werste kynde of flyes wyth gretter body and broder wombes than other flyes and lesse flyghte. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1000 |
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