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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A parasitic dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus; a sheep-tick. See
Melophagus , and cut undersheep-tick . - noun A mallophagous parasite, Trichodectes sphærocephalus, 1 millimeter long, infesting the wool of sheep in Europe and America: more fully called
red-headed sheep-louse .
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