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- English Word Fly Definition A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
- English Word Fly Definition A parasite.
- English Word Fly Definition A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
- English Word Fly Definition The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
- English Word Fly Definition The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- English Word Fly Definition That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- English Word Fly Definition Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- English Word Fly Definition A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
- English Word Fly Definition The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- English Word Fly Definition The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- English Word Fly Definition A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- English Word Fly Definition Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- English Word Fly Definition A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- English Word Fly Definition The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
- English Word Fly Definition One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
- English Word Fly Definition The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
- English Word Fly Definition A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
- English Word Fly Definition Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
- English Word Fly-bitten Definition Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.
- English Word Fly-case Definition The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
- English Word Fly-catching Definition Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.
- English Word Fly-fish Definition To angle, using flies for bait.
- English Word Flybane Definition A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
- English Word Flyblow Definition 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.
- English Word Flyblow Definition One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
- English Word Flyblown Definition Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
- English Word Flyboat Definition A large Dutch coasting vessel.
- English Word Flyboat Definition A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
- English Word Flycatcher Definition One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
- English Word Flyer Definition One that uses wings.