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horseflyAny of over 2,500 species of fly. The females suck blood from horses, cattle, and humans; the males live on plants and suck nectar. The larvae are carnivorous. (Family Tabanidae.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But given that the comedy about the misadventures of a bunch of wrinkly OAPs - including Peter Sallis, above, who plays Cleg - is back for its 30th series, a lot of people obviously feel differently. Some of the examples are: bigg 'the four-rowed barley, an inferior but harder variety of the six-rowed or winter barley, of rapid growth, and suited to inferior soils and more northern latitudes', whose first occurrence is dated to 1450 by Wright and Wulcker, who included the word in their Anglo-Saxon and OM English vocabularies; cleg 'a Although Tom keeps saying the mobster has the wrong man, like Spider's Dennis Cleg, he is obviously bedeviled by the brutal awakening of his past. |
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