Definition of fly

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Fly (v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc..

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Flotant :: Flotant (a.) Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant..
Angioma :: Angioma (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.
Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..
Fly-fish :: Fly-fish (v. i.) To angle, using flies for bait..
Fire Beetle :: Fire beetle () A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly..
Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc..
Myrobolan :: Myrobolan (n.) A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America..
Jawed :: "Jawed (a.) Having jaws; -- chiefly in composition; as, lantern-jawed..
Wing :: Wing (v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity..
Blacks :: Blacks (n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.
Timber :: Timber (v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Flyblow :: Flyblow (v. t.) 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..
Mahabharatam :: Mahabharatam (n.) A celebrated epic poem of the Hindoos. It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to the history of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India..
Circumvolation :: Circumvolation (n.) The act of flying round.
Root :: Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike..
Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks..
Laud :: Laud (v. i.) A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the pl..
Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli..
Sneeze :: Sneeze (v. i.) To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose..
Columbatz Fly :: Columbatz fly () See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo..
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