† wiglousen.
Obsolete.
The bed-bug: = wall-louse n. at wall n.1 Compounds 2b (a).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > cimex lectularius (bed-bug)
punaisec1530
wall-louse1540
cimex1585
bug1622
chincha1640
want-louse1655
wiglouse1658
bedbug1740
B. flat1853
Norfolk Howard1862
mahogany flat1864
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1046 They are enemies to Wiglice, that are most stinking creatures.
1660 R. Read Wecker's Secrets Art & Nature 129 For Wiglice, Make a smoke with Ox dung and it will drive away Wall~lice.
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