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Louse

Louse Meaning & Definition
Louse Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Louse?

[n] wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
[n] wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
[n] any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
[n] has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

Synonyms | Synonyms for Louse: bird louse | biting louse | dirt ball | insect | plant louse | sucking louse | worm

Related Terms | Find terms related to Louse: bastard | bugger | cat flea | chigoe | cockroach | crab | creep | cur | dog | dog flea | fart | flea | grayback | heel | hood | hooligan | jerk | jigger | meanie | mite | mother | nit | parasite | pill | rat | red bug | roach | sand flea | shit | shithead | shitheel | skunk | snake | SOB | stinkard | stinker | toad | turd | vermin | weevil | wretch

See Also | adelgid | Anoplura | aphid | body louse | chicken louse | common louse | cootie | crab | crab louse | disagreeable person | grape louse | grape phylloxera | head louse | homopteran | homopterous insect | insect | jumping plant louse | Mallophaga | Menopon gallinae | Menopon palladum | oak blight | order Anoplura | order Mallophaga | Pediculus capitis | Pediculus corporis | Pediculus humanus | Phthirius pubis | Phylloxera vitifoleae | psylla | psyllid | pubic louse | shaft louse | unpleasant person

Louse In Webster's Dictionary

\Louse\ (lous), n.; pl. {Lice} (l[imac]s). [OE. lous, AS. l[=u]s, pl. l[=y]s; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. l[=u]s, Icel. l[=u]s, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.] (Zo["o]l.) 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. 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}. 3. Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See {Aphid}. 4. Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See {Branchiura}, and {Ichthvophthira}. Note: The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse. {Louse fly} (Zo["o]l.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. {Louse mite} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
\Louse\, v. t. To clean from lice. ``You sat and loused him.'' --Swift.

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