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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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.

Bp. Srillingfleet.

Noun.

(Zool.)

One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

Verb.

To deposit an egg in any thing, as a fly; to taint with the eggs which produce maggots.

Like a flyblown cake of tallow.

Noun.

The egg of a fly.