Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common louse, Pediculus capitis, which infests the hair of the human head. Compare body-louse, crab-louse.
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Cootie: Noun US: a head-louse (Macquarie Online Dictionnary - Book of slang).]
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman
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