flyblow

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLYBLOW, verb transitive To deposit an egg in any thing, as a fly; to taint with the eggs which produce maggots. Like a flyblown cake of tallow. FLYBLOW, noun The egg of a fly.
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