Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The egg or larva of a blowfly, usually deposited on meat.
- v. To deposit flyblows on.
- v. To contaminate; taint.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make flyblown; taint with or as if with flyblows: chiefly in figurative uses.
- To deposit eggs on meat or the like, as a fly.
- n. The egg of a fly, the presence of which in numbers on meat, etc., makes it tainted and maggoty.
- Of the nature of flyblow; flyblown.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
Examples
“If you didn't have good schools for that man's children and his team's children, you knew he would flyblow South Carolina and industry would never come.”
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“Though his net intrants wight weighed nought but a flyblow to his gross and ganz afterduepoise.”
“Grubs -- or flyblow, description and treatment, 481 under the skin, description and treatment, 481”
“The oil of vainglory feeds the lamp; sinister aims corrupt and flyblow our holy things.”
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Gil Blas
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yarb He led me to an unfrequented part of the house, and opened his business thus -- Worthy sir, I make it a point of conscience to give you a very serious warning. You are aware that the Marquis de Marialva had at first taken a fancy to Narcissa, my wife; he had even gone so far as to fix a day for trying the relish of my rib, when that cockatrice Estella contrived to flyblow the bill of fare, and transfer the banquet to her own untainted charms.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 11 Oct 2, 2008