Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hundred feathers: applied to most of the moths of the family Pterophoridæ (which see).
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Under the surface, floating thus, with the check of ductile influence, the two flies spread their wings and quivered, like a centiplume moth in a spider's web.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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