| 释义 |
ˈside-fly ? Obs.
[side n.1]
A species of horse-fly.
1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 935 The English call it a side-fly or a Horse-fly. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. note, A rough whitish Maggot..within the intestinum Rectum of Horses; I suspect the Side-Fly proceeds from it. 1773G. White Selborne liii, Familiar to horsemen in the south of England, under the name of forest-fly, and, to some, of side-fly, from its running sideways like a crab. |