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wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.

Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.

To clean from lice.

Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.

Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.

To clean from lice.

To clean from lice.

A parasitic insect, of which there are numerous species.

To clean from lice.

A general name for small, wingless, parasitic insects, previously of the order Phthiraptera. Though exact taxonomy is still controversial, they can be grouped in the orders ANOPLURA (sucking lice), MALLOPHAGA (biting lice), and Rhynchophthirina (elephant-lice).

A small, flat, wingless insect living and feeding on the bodies of animals or men.

Pediculus, phthirius; an animal parasite infesting the hairy parts or the clothing.

A common wingless parasitic insect:-pl. LICE (lis).

A small parasitic insect.

See Pediculus.

Pl., lice. A parasitic insect of the genus Pediculus, infesting the human hair and skin. [Old Eng.]

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A wingless, hemipterous insect having a sucking mouth. It is found parasitic upon mammals : pl. Lice