- Carried on breeze - Moved by the wind - of Blow - of Blow - Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle
when gorged with green food which develops gas. - Stale; worthless. - Out of breath; tired; exhausted.
- 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. - One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly,
or blowfly.
- Bluebottle - Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its
eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other
animal products.
- Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the
genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings
and brilliant eyes. Their larvae are useful in destroying aphids.
Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly.
- A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called
rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which
spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and
salt waters; -- also called drone fly.