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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The egg or larva of a blowfly, usually deposited on meat.
  2. v. To deposit flyblows on.
  3. v. To contaminate; taint.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make flyblown; taint with or as if with flyblows: chiefly in figurative uses.
  2. To deposit eggs on meat or the like, as a fly.
  3. n. The egg of a fly, the presence of which in numbers on meat, etc., makes it tainted and maggoty.
  4. Of the nature of flyblow; flyblown.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

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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

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