Word Meanings - VOLPLANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To glide in a flying machine.

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• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• FLY-FISH
  To angle, using flies for bait. Walton.
• FLYFISH
  A California scorpænoid fish , having brilliant colors.
• FLY-CASE
  The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
• FLYING SQUIRREL
  One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps. Note: The species of Pteromys are large, with bushy tails,
• FLYBANE
  A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom ; fly agaric.
• FLYCATCHER
  One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing. Note: The true flycatchers of the Old World are Oscines, and belong to the family Muscicapidæ, as the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola). The American
• FLYING FISH
  A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.
• FLYBLOWN
  Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.
• FLYER
  One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder. 5. The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their
• FLYSCH
  A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
• FLYTRAP
  . A trap for catching flies.
• FLYSPECK
  A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
• GLIDEN
  p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
• FLYAWAY
  Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n.
• FLYMAN
  The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
• FLY AMANITA; FLY FUNGUS
  A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called
• FLY
  ONG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us- flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp.,
• FLYING
  Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement. Flying army a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm. Farrow. --Flying
• FLYBLOW
  To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• FIREFLY
  Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• GADFLY
  Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. Note: The sheep gadfly deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle deposits its
• SAWFLY
  Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay
• GORFLY
  A dung fly.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• BLOWFLY
  Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ upon meat or other animal products.
• ALDER FLY
  1. Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait. 2. An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• BUTTERFLY
  A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell