See Also: Blow Away (Blow Off) - Motor Sports(gambling)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
blow-up(dictionary)
blow(2)(dictionary)
blow(3)(dictionary)
blow(4)(dictionary)
fly-blow(dictionary)
by-blow(dictionary)
blow(medicine)

mammary dysplasia (medicine) and fly-blow (iou)


mammary dysplasia (medicine)


mammary dysplasia


An obsolete term for fibrocystic condition of the breast.


fly-blow (iou)



fly-blow noun & verb. M16.
[from FLY noun1 + BLOW noun2, verb1.]
A. noun. A fly's egg deposited in meat, carrion, etc.; a maggot hatched from this. M16.
B. verb trans. Infl. as BLOW verb1; pa. t. -blew .
Of a fly etc.: deposit eggs on or in (meat etc.). Cf. earlier BLOW verb1 18. E17.
fig. Corrupt secretly, taint. E17.
fly-blown adjective (a) full of fly-blows; tainted, impure, corrupt; (b) Austral. & NZ slang without any money, broke: E16.