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louse

LOUSE, n. lous. plu. lice.

A small insect of the genus Pediculus. It has six feet, two eyes, with long feelers and a sting in the mouth. It infests the bodies of men and other animals; but different animals are infested with different species.

LOUSE, v.t. louz. To clean from lice.



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LOUSE, n. lous. plu. lice.

A small insect of the genus Pediculus. It has six feet, two eyes, with long feelers and a sting in the mouth. It infests the bodies of men and other animals; but different animals are infested with different species.

LOUSE, v.t. louz. To clean from lice.


LOUSE, n. [lous; plur. Lice. Sax. lus, plur. lys; D. luis; G. laus; Sw. and Dan. lus.]

The popular name of a genus of parasitic insects, termed Pediculus, with a flattened body divided into eleven or twelve segments, to three of which is attached a pair of legs, which are short, and terminated by a stout nail or two opposing hooks, which enable these animals to cling with great facility. The mouth consists of a small tubular protuberance situated at the anterior extremity of the heed, in the form of a snout, and containing a sucker when at rest. Their eggs are termed nits in English. Two species infest the bodies of men. Different animals are infested with different species.


LOUSE, v.t. [louz.]

To clean from lice. – Swift.


Louse
  1. Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
  2. To clean from lice.

    "You sat and loused him." Swift.
  3. Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
  4. Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
  5. Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.

    * The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse.

    Louse fly (Zoöl.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. -- Louse mite (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to Myobia, Dermaleichus, Mycoptes, and several other genera.

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Louse

LOUSE, noun lous. plural lice.

A small insect of the genus Pediculus. It has six feet, two eyes, with long feelers and a sting in the mouth. It infests the bodies of men and other animals; but different animals are infested with different species.

LOUSE, verb transitive louz. To clean from lice.

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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

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